Ludmila Ulitskaya

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Людмила Улицкая (Россия), Ljudmila Ulitzkaja (Germany); Ludmila Oulitskaia (France); Ludmila Ulitskaya (England, USA, Spain); Ljudmila Ulickaja (Italy, Hungary); Ljudmila Ulitskaja (Finland, Denmark, Norway); Ljoedmila Oelitskaja (The Netherlands); Liudmila Ulickaja (Lithuania)

Ludmila Ulitskaya was born in 1943 in the Urals. After the graduation from Moscow University with a Degree of Master in Biology, she worked in the Institute of Genetics as a scientist. Shortly before perestroika (1979/1982) she became Repertory Director of the Hebrew Theatre of Moscow, and a scriptwriter.

She is the author of many novels and novellas including Medea and Her Children, Kukotsky Case, Sincerely Yours, Shurik, Daniel Stein, Interpreter, Imago / The Big Green Tent, and Yakov´s Ladder, of several collections of short stories, of tales for children, and of six plays staged by a theaters in Russia and Europe.

Ludmila Ulitskaya is one of the most profound and far-reaching writers of the contemporary Russian literature, and one of the most published modern Russian authors abroad.

Ludmila Ulitskaya is the winner of:

• The Günter Grass-Preis (2023, Germany)
  
• The Erich-Maria-Remarque-Friedenspreis (2023, Germany)
  
• The 2022 Formentor Prize (2022, International Spanish-speaking world)
  
• The 2021 MHG Human Rights Prize (2021, Russia, for defending human rights by means of art and culture)
• Siegfried-Lenz-Preis (Germany, 2020)
• Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bucharest (Romania, 2019)
• 2018 Neustadt Prize Finalist (USA)
  
• National Literary Prize BIG BOOK (Russia, 2016, 3rd place and Reader’s Choice Award for Yakov's Ladder);
• Austrian State Prize for European Literature 2014;
• Officier de la Légion d'honneur (France, 2013):
• Park Kyung-ni International Literary Award (2012, South Korea),
• Russian Booker of the Decade nominee (2011, for Daniel Stein, Interpreter),
• Oleg Tabakov Prize (2011, Russia, for "Imago");
• Prix Simone de Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes (2011, France);
• Gran Premio delle Lettrici ELLE (Nov. 2010, Italy);
• Premio Bauer/Ca’Foscari (2010, Italy);
• GLOBE yearly prize of The Znamya literary magazine (2010, Russia, together with M.Khodorkovsky for 'Dialogues with Ludmila Ulitskaya');
• Man Booker International Prize nominee (2009);
• Budapest Grand Prix (2009, Hungary);
• Father Alexander Men's Award (2008, Germany-Russia, for "Daniel Stein, Interpreter");
• Grinzane Cavour Literary Award (2008, Italy, for "Sincerely Yours, Shurik");
• National Literary Prize BIG BOOK (2007, Russia, for "Daniel Stein, Interpreter");
• Best Stage Play Award 2006 conferred by Moscow Culture Committee for the "Year of White Elephant" (2007, Russia);
• National Olympia Prize of Russian Academy of Business (2007, Russia);
• Penne Prize (2006, Italy, for "Kukotsky Case");
• Venetz (Crown) Literary Prize (Russia, 2006)
• Book of the Year Literary Prize (Russia, 2005, "for All Our Lord's Men")
  
• National Literature Prize (2005, China, for "Sincerely yours, Shurik");
• Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Ordre des Arts et Lettres) (France, 2004)
• Best writer of the Year Prize (2004, Russia);
• Novel of the Year Prize (2004, Russia, for "Sincerely yours, Shurik");
• Knight of the Order of Academic Palms (Ordre des Palmes académiques) (France, 2003);
• Russian Booker Prize (2001, Russia, for "Kukotsky Case");
• Literature Prize Giuseppe Acerbi (1998, Italy, for "Sonechka");
• Penne Prize (1997, Italy);
• Prix Médicis (1996, France, for "Sonechka").