Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Lyudmila Ulitskaya
In 2023
In 2023
Born (1943-02-21) February 21, 1943 (age 81)
Davlekanovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma materMoscow State University
GenreFiction, script writing
Literary movementAestheticism
Notable worksSonechka
"The Big Green Tent"
"Jacob's Ladder"
The Funeral Party
Medea and Her Children
Daniel Stein, Interpreter
“Just the Plague”
SpouseAndrej Krasulin
Website
elkost.com/authors/ulitskaya

Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya (Russian: Людмила Евгеньевна Улицкая, born February 21, 1943) is an internationally acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer who, in 2014, was awarded the prestigious Austrian State Prize for European Literature for her oeuvre. In 2006 she published Daniel Stein, Interpreter (Даниэль Штайн, переводчик), a novel dealing with the Holocaust and the need for reconciliation between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. She won the 2012 Park Kyong-ni Prize.