Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya a potential nominee for Nobel prize in literature

Record ID: 1435953

  • Title: Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya a potential nominee for Nobel prize in literature
  • Date: 9th October 2019
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (FILE - JANUARY 13, 2010) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** RUSSIAN NOVELIST, LYUDMILA ULITSKAYA, ACCEPTING AWARD FOR RUSSIAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR AUDIENCE APPLAUDING ULITSKAYA SPEAKING TO AUDIENCE AUDIENCE APPLAUDING ULITSKAYA AND DAUGHTER OF MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY, ANASTASIA KHODORKOVSKAYA MOSCOW, RUSSIA (FILE - JANUARY 20, 2011) (REUTERS) ULITSKAYA AT NEWS CONFERENCE PRESENTING BOOK ABOUT MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY COPIES OF BOOK "MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY. ESSAYS, DIALOGUES, INTERVIEWS" ON TABLE ULITSKAYA SPEAKING AT NEWS CONFERENCE NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS MAN READING BOOK ABOUT KHODORKOVSKY VARIOUS OF WOMAN READING BOOK ABOUT KHODORKOVSKY MOSCOW, RUSSIA (FILE - JANUARY 18, 2012) (REUTERS) JOURNALISTS AND SPEAKERS AROUND TABLE AT VOTERS LEAGUE MEETING ULITSKAYA SPEAKING AT VOTERS LEAGUE MEETING PHOTOGRAPHERS
  • Embargoed: 23rd October 2019 18:07
  • Keywords: Nobel prize nominee Russia Nobel prize literature Nobel prize Literature Laureates
  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • City: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Books,Arts / Culture / Entertainment
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  • Story Text: Internationally acclaimed Russian novelist and short story writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya is a likely contender for the 2019 Nobel prize in literature.
    The 76-year-old writer's works explore the state of Russian and Soviet society, familial relations and Soviet-time political repressions.
    She was born in the town of Davlekanovo, then in the Soviet republic of Bashkiria in 1943. Engulfed by war against Nazi Germany, Ulitskaya's family evacuated from the west of the Soviet Union and she grew up in Moscow, where she studied biology at the Moscow State University.
    Ulitskaya worked in a genetics institute before beginning her literary career when she joined the Jewish drama theatre as a literary consultant.
    She started publishing her writing only in 1993 after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
    The author has been the recipient of several literary awards, including the The Prix Medicis Etranger in France in 1996 and the Russian Booker prize in 2001 for her novel 'The Kukotsky Enigma'.
    Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
    The writer does not shy away from political activism and in 2014 branded Russia's annexation of Crimea from Kiev "a dangerous step that could lead to a war" in an interview with Novaya Gazeta newspaper.
    In 2018, Ulitskaya was blacklisted by Azerbaijan authorities for visiting the Azeri breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh.
    The Swedish body that awards the annual Nobel prize for literature will name two winners on Thursday (October 10), including one for 2018 when the ceremony was scuttled by a sexual assault scandal that prompted reforms by the long secretive organisation.
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