Alphabet Authors ~ U is for Ulitzkaya

I found this idea on Simon's blog @ Stuck in a Book. He picks an author for each letter of the alphabet, sharing which of their books he's read, which I ones he owns, how he came across them etc.

U was a difficult letter because not many authors' names start with it. So, I haven't read that many books with a U writer.

Well, there is one very talented and great Russian author:

Lyudmila Ulitzkaya

- "Imago" or "The Big Green Tent" (RUS: Зеленый шатер = Zelenyi shater) - 2010
- "Medea and Her Children" (Медея и её дети/Medeja i eë deti) - 1996

Facts about Lyudmila Ulitzkaya:
Born    February 21, 1943 (age 81), Davlekanovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

She has been married three times, her current husband is Russian sculptor Andrey Nikolaevich Krasulin. She has two sons with her second husband.

Since 2022, she lives in Berlin, Germany.

She won many prizes, i.a. the Austrian State Prize for European Literature for her work, French prizes like Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, National Order of the Legion of Honour, the German Erich Marie Remarque prize and the Günter Grass prize along with many Russian, Chinese and other prizes from around the world.

She is anti-Putin and strongly opposes the Russian war against the Ukrane.

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This is part of an ongoing series where I will write about a different author for each letter of the alphabet. You can see them all here.