Why slippers to the angels

To write fairy tales in Andersen"s traditions, a unique combination of imagination and knowledge, wisdom and simple -heartedness is required. Svetlana Shchelkunova fully possesses all these gifts. Her fairy tales are wise and naive, fascinating and poetic.
Alexander Melikhov,
writer, publicist

Svetlana Shchelkunova belongs to that line of the authors, which comes from the romantic times of Hoffmann and Andersen through neo -romantic - Wilde and Meterlink, and then through Alexandra Green, Evgenia Schwartz, later - Vadim Shefner - reaches us. Whatever Svetlana writes about, a fairy tale arises in her always, as it were, out of nothing. More precisely, from attitude, out of childhood delight before the world and adult irony about it. The Schelkunovsky irony is devoid of anger, she has a different function: she is somewhat delighted to deprive him of simple -minded sweetness. And then the details enter the game ...
Vadim Pugach,
poet, writer, teacher