Nnamdi Nwogwugwu was born in the shadow of war, in a refugee camp in Okigwe, at the moment history tried to forget. A British-Nigerian psychiatrist and storyteller, he carries within him the weight of silence, memory, and migration. He studied medicine in the Soviet Union during its final winters—where language, ideology, and isolation shaped his understanding of the human condition. His writing is where these journeys converge. Drawing from African oral traditions and the philosophical depth of Russian literature, he crafts narratives that explore identity, loss, and the fragile beauty of connection across time and borders. Once Upon a Time in the Shadows of War and Winter is his debut novel—an epic of love, exile, and inheritance, written over decades and rooted in both personal experience and historical truth. He lives in the United Kingdom, where he practices as a psychiatrist, and often returns to Nigeria—the place where his stories began.