Lyudmila Ulitskaya Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. She wrote more than 20 books that were translated into 30 languages.

But she wrote the first work at 50 and for a long time she jokingly called herself a "young author." Experience and wisdom acquired over the years were reflected in its texts. The style of the street literary critics are characterized as a “family epic”. The novels brought the writer many awards. She became the first woman-laureate of the “Russian Boker”, twice received a “big book”, was nominated for the International Buker Prize.

The writer has more a dozen foreign awards, including the Italian Prize Greentsan Kavur, the French Prize Simona de Bovoir and the German Prize Gunther Grassa. The writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya, but at the beginning of the year, from one of the most revered Russian authors, Ulitskaya instantly turned into disgraced. After the author’s recognition in a conversation with the prains of Lexus and Vovan was that she transfers fees for her books to Ukraine, AST publishing house suspended cooperation with her, and the theaters began to cancel performances for her plays, and the most famous novels of Ulitskaya disappeared from libraries and bookstores.

In the early years, Lyudmila Ulitskaya was born in Bashkiria, where her family was evacuated during the Great Patriotic War. She was born on February 21 in the city of Davlekanovo. Both grandfathers of the future writer, Yakov Ulitsky and Boris Ginzburg, were repressed, but were able to return from the camps alive. The family moved back to Moscow, the code of Lyudmila was 9 months old.

Parents of Ulitskaya worked in the field of science. Dad was engaged in the construction of tractors, and mom was a biologist. It was the laboratories in which the little Lyudmila spent time that made her think about obtaining a similar education. In the year, Lyudmila tried to enter the biological faculty of Moscow State University, but was cut off in an entrance exam in the German language.

The next two years she worked in a histological laboratory, after which she repeated an attempt to enter, which was successful. There she worked for two years until the laboratory was closed. The reason was the poetic and political samizdat, the spread of which was engaged in employees. Scientists were sent to the KGB for interrogation, a typewriter belonging to Ulitskaya was arrested.

It didn’t reach the arrest, but employees could no longer continue his career at the institute. The next 10 years Ulitskaya actually did not work. She received money for writing essays, reviews of plays and a translation of some verses. Lyudmila focused on the family: she had two sons who had to be careed for. The mother, who found cancer, also demanded concerns. Then Ulitskaya divorced her husband and the question arose sharply about the search for work.

However, she was not going to return to science, as she realized that over the years of absence, she was hopelessly lagging behind. Lyudmila Ulitskaya in his youth, the first books in the year with the help of a friend of Ulitskaya received a place of the head of the literary part in the chamber Jewish Musical Theater. There she first encountered frankly poor scripts of the authors and realized that she could write much better.

When you read other people's plays, good and bad, you study. And so, when I have already passed this certain school, I realized that, in general, I could also try, ”Lyudmila admitted in an interview. The first play that Ulitskaya wrote was “My grandson Benjamin”. The plot was based on the story of a fundamental Jewish, who hoped to marry her son on a girl of “correct” nationality. When the writer created the play, she represented in the image of the main character Lei Akhedzhakov.

It was this actress who played in the play when he was staged in the year on the stage of the St. Petersburg Musical Comedy Theater. In the year, Ulitskaya left her work in the theater and focused on writing scripts. She wrote stories for literary magazines, took part in the creation of animated paintings: in the year - “one hundred buttons”, in the year - “The Secret of toys”.

I sent the first five stories to five thick magazines. And received five failures. Then all these stories were printed, three even received bonuses. The first fame came to her after the scenarios were shot by artistic paintings. In the year in the New World magazine, the story of the writer “Sonya” was first published - about a heroine who completely plunged into the world of books.

Two years later, in France, the story was recognized as the best translation work and awarded the author of the Medici Prize. There, in Europe, the first book of Ulitskaya saw the light - a collection of stories “Poor relatives”. He went out in French in the year. Lyudmila Ulitskaya in the beginning of the x career overwhelming three years later, already in Russia, the first novel of Ulitskaya “Medea and her children” was released.

In the year, the book was nominated for the Russian Bucher Award, but it did not receive a reward. It was very difficult. The novel is an unbearable thing for an ordinary person. Well, for me, in any case, - the writer admitted. A year later, she released the story “Funny funeral”, which was filmed 10 years later.In the film “From nowhere with love, or funny funeral”, Alexander Abdulov got the main role and became a prophetic for him - his hero's life carried on an oncological disease.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya: I think this is my last interview in the year, the writer released another novel - “Kazus Kukotsky”, who spoke a lot about “uncomfortable” things like criminal abortions in the Soviet era. This book brought her the "Russian Bouquer." For the first time, the woman became the laureate of the award. In the nomination, Roman Ulitskaya overtook the book “Kys” by Tatyana Tolstoy, who was considered the favorite of the award.

The novel was followed by a collection of stories “Girls” and the novel “The Test Line” The next year was marked by the release of Ulitskaya’s novel “Sincerely Your Shurik” - it became a book of the year in Russia. In the year, the writer released the work "Daniel Stein, translator." The prototype of the protagonist of the novel was Daniel Rufiseen, with whom Ulitskaya was familiar personally.

He was in my house in the year, and I wrote a book ten years after this event. And I was very afraid to approach her. I think if he was alive, I would not dare to write it. Roman brought her the first prize of a big book in the year. Two years later, Ulitskaya was nominated for the International Buker Prize. The next big book of the author saw the light of the year - the novel "Green Tent" was collected from several stories.

A year later, the writer released a collection of articles and essays “Holy Garbage”, where she also described the experience of her fight against cancer. In the year, the author published the novel "Jacob Staircase", based on her family history and letters of grandfather Yakov Ulitsky. My grandfather’s correspondence with my grandmother fascinated me into such a space that I fell out there again, this story lasted four years of my life.

The book brought the third prize to the writer a large book in international awards: she became a gentleman of the Order of Academic Palm in France, the gentleman of the Order of Arts and Literature, was awarded the Italian Penne Prize and the Green Cavor Prize in the year awarded the French Prize Simona de Bovoir. And three years later in Europe she became an officer of the Order of the Legion of Honor.

In the year, Ulitskaya issued the collection “Dar Nerkhornaya”, after three years another - “On the body of the soul”. In the year, the writer presented previously unpublished scenarios, diary entries and plays in the book “Paper Theater: Non -Promised”. There was even a film scene of the “plague”, which Ulitskaya wrote in the year: “The script lay unclaimed, but I did not offer it to anyone.

But when it smelled of an epidemic, I realized that today it is very interesting. ” The scandal was connected with this script: Natalya Rapoport accused the writer of Ulitskaya of plagiarism. According to her, Rapoport decided to work with Ulitskaya in the years, the script lay on a shelf and was published only after 40 years. Lyudmila denied all the claims of the former colleague: I really used her story told at the table.

But table conversations are not included in copyright. At first we tried to work together, but she did not suit me as a co -author. In the year, Ulitskaya received an international literary prize. She was also awarded the German Literary Prize named after Siegfried Lenz. And in March, the author saw the new book of the author “My real name. Stories with a biography ”, which was actually memoirs.

In the same year, the writer received the German Prize Gunter Grassa. She became the first foreigner awarded such a reward. A payment of 10 thousand euros was also attached to the award. The meeting of Lyudmila Ulitskaya with readers, the public position in the year of Ulitskaya became the founder of the Fund for the Support of Humanitarian Initiatives. Over the next few years, the writer organized and released a series of books for children from different authors called “Another, others, about others”.

In the year, the author, along with colleagues, established the Voters League. Next year, the writer tried herself as a presenter - the program “Actual Cinema with Lyudmila Ulitskaya” was published on the Culture TV channel. Then she became a member of the Civil Platform party. In the year, Ulitskaya condemned the policy of the Russian government in Crimea and in the east of Ukraine: my country is sick with aggressive ignorance, nationalism and imperial mania.

The current policy turns Russia into a country of barbarians. In the year, she asked the leadership of the “civilian platform” to suspend her membership, explaining that she did not agree with the party’s policy.