Creator Bio
Ludmila Ulitskaya
b. 1943
Born in the Soviet Union, Ludmila Ulitskaya is a Russian novelist and short story author. Trained as a biologist and geneticist, she has also written film scripts and translations, and her writing has been described as deeply humane, morally serious, and of the nineteenth-century tradition. Among Ulitskaya’s many honors are the Penne Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Russian Booker Prize, the Russian Novel of the Year Prize, and the Chinese National Literature Prize.
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Sonechka
Almost before she was out of the cradle, Sonechka was a bookworm. As Efrem, elder brother and family satirist, never tired of repeating, “All that reading has given Sonechka a butt like a chair and a…