Lyudmila Petrushevskaya | |
|---|---|
 In New York City, November 2009. | |
| Born | 26 May 1938 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship | Russia |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Genre | Fiction, drama, film, songwriting, singing, visual arts |
Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (Russian: Людмила Стефановна Петрушевская; born 26 May 1938) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright. She began her career writing short stories and plays, which were often censored by the Soviet government,[1] and following perestroika, published a number of well-respected works of prose.[1]
She is best known for her plays, novels, including The Time: Night, and collections of short stories, notably There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby. In 2017, she published a memoir, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel.[2] She is considered one of Russia's premier living literary figures, having been compared in style to Anton Chekhov[2] and in influence to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.[3] Her works have won a number of accolades, including the Russian Booker Prize, the Pushkin Prize, and the World Fantasy Award.[4]
Her creative interests and successes are wide-ranging, as she is also a singer and has worked in film animation, screenwriting, and as a painter.[5]
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- ^ a b "Nonfiction Book Review: The Girl from the Metropol Hotel by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, trans. from the Russian by Anna Summers. Penguin, $16 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-312997-4". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
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