Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Lyudmila Yevgenyevna Ulitskaya was born in 1943. She spent the first years of her life with her parents in Bashkiria, but after the Victory the family returned to Moscow. Lyudmila Ulitskaya graduated from the Biopharmacy Department of Moscow State University. She worked for several years at the Institute of Genetics and then turned to creative work: she was the head of the literary department of the theatre, wrote plays and scripts, and did translations.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya's stories have been published since the 1980s. In the 1990s, after the release of films based on her scripts and the publication of the story "Sonechka," the writer became one of the most prominent authors of women's prose. In her work, Lyudmila Ulitskaya avoids sentimentality and emphasises everyday nuances. Her books have won prestigious literary prizes in Russia, France, Italy, and Austria.

Ludmila Ulitskaya is involved in charity work, supporting hospices and provincial libraries. She is a public activist who defends individual freedoms and humanist values.