diff --git a/.config/nvim/init.lua b/.config/nvim/init.lua
index 895dc12..1191ba3 100644
--- a/.config/nvim/init.lua
+++ b/.config/nvim/init.lua
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ require("config.mason")
 require("config.treesitter")
 require("config.gitsigns")
 require("config.lualine")
+require("config.telescope")
 
 -- for some reason this must be placed in init.lua file
 -- it doesn't work in any lua/config/*.lua files
diff --git a/.config/nvim/lua/config/telescope.lua b/.config/nvim/lua/config/telescope.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..395092f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.config/nvim/lua/config/telescope.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+local builtin = require('telescope.builtin')
+vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader>ff', builtin.find_files, { desc = 'Telescope find files' })
+vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader>fg', builtin.live_grep, { desc = 'Telescope live grep' })
+vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader>fb', builtin.buffers, { desc = 'Telescope buffers' })
+vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader>fh', builtin.help_tags, { desc = 'Telescope help tags' })
+vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader>ft', builtin.treesitter, { desc = 'Telescope treesitter picker' })
diff --git a/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/telescope.lua b/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/telescope.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2b7d729
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/telescope.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+return {
+    'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim', tag = '0.1.8',
+      dependencies = {
+	      'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim',
+	      'BurntSushi/ripgrep',	-- required for live_grep and grep_string and is the first priority for find_files
+	      'nvim-telescope/telescope-fzf-native.nvim',	-- native telescope sorter to significantly improve sorting performance
+      }
+}