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May 26, 1938 Moscow, Russia 85 years old
Russian writer
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About Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
- Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ????????????; born 26 May 1938) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright.
- She began her career writing and putting on plays, which were often censored by the Soviet government, and following perestroika, published a number of well-respected works of prose.
- She is best known for her plays, novels, including The Time: Night, and collections of short stories, notably There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby.
- In 2017, she published a memoir, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel.
- She is considered one of Russia's premier living literary figures, having been compared in style to Anton Chekhov and in influence to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
- Her works have won a number of accolades, including the Russian Booker Prize, the Pushkin Prize, and the World Fantasy Award.Her creative interests and successes are wide-ranging, as she is also a singer and has worked in film animation, screenwriting, and as a painter.
