Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya is a short-story writer and playwright. A longer version of ‘Our Circle’ (Granta 30) is published in Petrushevskaya’s first collection of stories, still not published in English, entitled Immortal Love. Petrushevskaya and Victoria Tokareva, along with Tatyana Tolstaya, are regarded as being in the vanguard of a new generation of Soviet fiction writers.