The importance of being low-key: Kirils Kobrins at TEDxRiga

Kirils Kobrins is an author of 14 books, who writes fiction and nonfiction prose, co-edits a magazine in Moscow and contributes to a monthly column for Rīgas Laiks.

Kirils wrote a Ph.D thesis on Welsh Medieval History, spent 13 years in Prague working as a journalist for Radio Svoboda and eventually moved to London where he settled last year to enjoy life as a melancholic freelancer.

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