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 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.