Ludmila Ulitskaya

Born in the Soviet Union, Ludmila Ulitskaya is a Russian novelist and short story author. Trained as a biologist and geneticist, she has also written film scripts and translations, and her writing has been described as deeply humane, morally serious, and of the nineteenth-century tradition. Among Ulitskaya’s many honors are the Penne Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Russian Booker Prize, the Russian Novel of the Year Prize, and the Chinese National Literature Prize.