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Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (Russian: Людмила Стефановна Петрушевская; born 26 May 1938) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright.
Quick Study: Ludmila Petrushevskaya is one of contemporary Russia’s most distinctive writers: she is especially renowned as a writer of dark and creepy short stories, a dramatist who loves absurdity, and a cabaret performer.
Ludmilla Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (Russian: Людмила Петрушевская) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright. Her works include the novels The Time Night (1992) and The Number One, both short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize, and Immortal Love, a collection of short stories and monologues.
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Dec 2, 2009 · Learn about the life and work of the Russian writer Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, who survived Stalin's terror, war, and poverty to create fiction that blends realism and fantasy. Read an excerpt from her novel The Time: Night and an analysis of her stories by two critics.
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in 1938 in Moscow, where she still lives. She is the author of more than fifteen collections of prose, including the New York Times bestseller There Once Lived...
Jul 11, 2017 · In Moscow, Anna Summers speaks with Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, a famed Russian novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
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Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, a Russian writer and playwright who has published over 20 books, was born in Moscow in 1938. During the war she wandered between relatives and even stayed at an orphanage, “stealing heads of herring from the neighbours’ garbage bins,” she says.
