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Tatyana Tolstaya

Translated by Anya Migdal

'I didn't start out a writer, and had no plans of becoming one.' Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russian by Anya Migdal

Tatyana Tolstaya

Tatyana Tolstaya lives in Moscow. For twelve years, she was the co-host of The School for Scandal, a popular talk show on Russian television covering culture and politics. She is also the co-founder of a creative writing academy in Moscow. She has written for the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. Five of her previous books, including her novel The Slynx, have been translated into English.

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Translated by Anya Migdal

Anya Migdal is a writer, translator, and actor living in New York. Tatyana Tolstaya's Aetherial Worlds, which Anya translated, is published by Knopf in March 2018.

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