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Sana Valiulina

Sana Valiulina was born in Tallinn, in Soviet Estonia. She studied Norwegian at Moscow State University before moving to Amsterdam in 1989. She received the Jan Hanlo Essay Price in 2017. Her latest novel, To Grab a Wolf by the Ears (2021), is about the Roman emperor Tiberius. She writes in Dutch and Russian.  

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 160 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 160 padlock

Fateha

Sana Valiulina

‘While Fateha is fleeing westward with her children, another woman is trying to save herself from the city on the shore of the Sea of Azov.’

Memoir by Sana Valiulina, translated by Polly Gannon.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 143
Essays & Memoir | Issue 143

Root and Branch

Sana Valiulina

‘I am my father’s daughter, a former prisoner of war and “suspicious person” who spent ten years in the Gulag.’ Translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon.

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