Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Guest Speaker

Professional Affiliation

Best-selling Russian author; Playwright; Activist

Expert Bio

Lyudmila Ulitskaya is a Russian writer, translator, screenwriter, television host, and public figure. She is the winner of the Russian Booker Prize and the Big Book (Bolshaya Kniga) award and the author of the globally acclaimed novels The Kukotsky Enigma, The Big Green Tent, Yakov's Ladder, and Daniel Stein, Interpreter. Her books have been translated into three dozen languages.


Писательница, переводчица, сценаристка, телеведущая и общественный деятель. Лауреат премий «Русский Букер» и «Большая книга». Автор известных во всём мире романов «Казус Кукоцкого», «Даниэль Штайн, переводчик», «Зеленый шатер», «Лестница Якова». Книги Людмилы Улицкой переведены на три десятка языков.

Major Publications

Yakov’s Ladder, 2015

Discarded Relics (non-fiction), 2012

• The Big Green Tent, 2010 

• Daniel Stein, Interpreter, 2006 (USA – 2011 by Overlook Press, UK – 2011 by Duckworth)

• All Our Lord's Men, 2005

 Russian Marmelade, 2005

• Trilogy for children vol.1-3, 2004-2005

• Childhood Forty Nine, 2003

• Sincerely yours, Shurik, 2003

• Women's Lies,  2003

• Girls,  2002

• Kukotsky Case,  2001

• Funeral Party, 1997 (USA –2001 by Schocken Books, UK – 2015 by Weidenfeld Nicolson) 

• Medea, 1996  (USA – 2002 by Schocken Books)

• Sonechka 1995 (USA – 2005 by Schocken Books)