Ryan Gelpke

Ryan Gelpke, born in 1997 in Zurich is a Swiss-Hungarian citizen. He writes diaristic and third-person fiction shaped by exile, alcohol, philosophy, and geography. His work moves between Peru, Portugal, and continental Europe, tracing interior states more than plots. Influenced by Pessoa, Kerouac, DeLillo, and late McCarthy, his books function as notebooks from the edge of lived experience rather than conventional novels.

He currently lives in Vilnius, Lithuania and in Thiruvananthapuram, India.