Russian Booker Prize
2 appearances
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Edition 1 (1992) Nominee
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Edition 13 (2004) Nominee
Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya
リュドミラ・ステファノヴナ・ペトルシェフスカヤ
Ryudomira Sutanovuna Petorushefusukaya
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1938-05-26 （Moscow, Metropol Hotel）
- Nationality
- Russian
- Languages
- Russian
- Residence History
- Moscow → Kuibyshev (now Samara)
Career
- Occupations
- writer, novelist, playwright, singer, painter, screenwriter
- Active Years
- 1979-2024
- Influenced By
- Anton Chekhov
- Influenced
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Nominations
- Russian Booker Prize shortlist (The Time: Night), Russian Booker Prize shortlist (The Number One)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow State University | — | Journalism Department | ジャーナリズム学位 | — | Russia |
Moscow State University
Journalism Department
Degree:
ジャーナリズム学位
Country:
Russia
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Pushkin Prize | — | — | Alfred Toepfer Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2004 | Russian State Prize | — | — | Government of the Russian Federation | 受賞 |
| 2005 | Stanislavsky Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2006 | Triumph Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2010 | World Fantasy Award | There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby | Best Collection | — | 受賞 |
Pushkin Prize
2003
Organization:
Alfred Toepfer Foundation
Result:
受賞
Russian State Prize
2004
Organization:
Government of the Russian Federation
Result:
受賞
Stanislavsky Award
2005
Result:
受賞
Triumph Prize
2006
Result:
受賞
World Fantasy Award
2010
Work:
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby
Category:
Best Collection
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Time: Night
1992 novelA novel about a mother's struggles
familypovertySoviet society
Immortal Love
1987 short story collectionCollection of stories on immortal love
lovedeath
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby
2009 short story collectionDark, fantastical short stories
despairresilience
Bibliography
- Immortal Love (1987)
- The Time: Night (1992)
- The Number One (2004)
- There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby (2009)
- There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself (2013)
- The Girl from the Metropol Hotel (2017)
Adaptations
- Tale of Tales (1979 animated film screenplay)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- postmodernist trendspsychological insightsparodic touches
- Recurring Motifs
- bleak Soviet/post-Soviet lifefamily conflictsresilience
Legacy
One of Russia's premier living literary figures, compared in style to Chekhov and in influence to Solzhenitsyn.
Museums
- Tretyakov Gallery Moscow
- Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Moscow
In Popular Culture
- Works translated into over 30 languages
Quotes
-
Russia is a land of women Homers, women who tell their stories orally...
Source: Interview with Sally Laird (1993)
Trivia
- Born in the Metropol Hotel.
- Nicknamed 'The Moscow Matchstick' due to thinness in childhood.
- Stopped writing in 2023 due to Russian invasion of Ukraine.