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Ludmila Ulitskaya

Born in 1943 in the Urals, Ludmila Ulitskaya is one of Russia’s most accomplished and far-reaching contemporary writers. She is the author of numerous plays, stories and novels, and her work has won or been nominated for many prestigious international literary awards, including the Man Booker International and the Prix Médicis Étranger.

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Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | Issue 149 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 149 padlock

Ludmila Ulitskaya | On Europe

Ludmila Ulitskaya

‘It seems clear to me that during the past ten years, Russia has reached the apex of its estrangement from Europe.’ Translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon.

FictionFiction | Issue 149
Fiction | Issue 149

Poor Lucky Kolyvanova

Ludmila Ulitskaya

‘The red girls’ school stood opposite a grey boys’ school, built five years after it as if to proclaim the rational symmetry of the world.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | Issue 131
Essays & Memoir | Issue 131

Life and Breasts

Ludmila Ulitskaya

‘Death is here, by our side, and we can make no witty Nabokovian jokes about it.’

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