Lada Luzina

Vladislava Kucherova (Ukrainian: Владислава Кучерова; born 21 October 1972), better known by the pen name Lada Luzina (Ukrainian: Лада Лузіна), is a Ukrainian author and former journalist. Nicknamed the "Kyiv Witch", she writes novels in Russian within the crime and fantasy genres. Luzina was born on 21 October 1972 in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Her parents divorced when she was four years old.

У мене золота мама, вона ніколи мені нічого не нав'язувала і не забороняла. Пізніше я зрозуміла те, що усвідомлювала в дитинстві інтуїтивно: батько міг би мене зламати. Мама ж виростила мене абсолютно вільною. Саме завдяки її виховання в мені сформувався головний життєвий принцип: у світі немає нічого неможливого! Всі правила і закони ілюзорні.

I have a golden mother, who never imposed or forbade me anything. Later, I realized what I knew intuitively as a child: my father could break me. My mother raised me completely free. It is thanks to her upbringing that the main principle of life has formed in me: nothing is impossible in the world! All rules and laws are illusory.

Eventually, she began to user her mother's maiden name, Luzina, as a pseudonym.After the 8th grade, her mother took Luzina to an architectural school, the Vocational School No. 18, after which she worked in construction. She later entered the Faculty of Theater Criticism of the Kyiv Theater Institute. Starting her freshman year, her articles and poems began to be printed in various publications.After leaving school, Luzina began her career as a tabloid journalist, which earned her the nickname "scandal journalist".