Daulet D. is an independent author from Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the creator of POV: I Am… Universe, a literary project in which objects, emotions, and unseen forces become witnesses to human lives.

A train falls in love with its only passenger. A virus lives inside the child it is slowly destroying. A smartphone remembers what its owner tries to forget. Even silence begins to speak.

Born in Almaty and educated in Tokyo at Japan’s National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Daulet writes about memory, loss, love, family, and what it means to be human when everything is changing.

He is the author of AINALAYIN, AQSU, KÖK TÖBE, and LEPSY.