Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya ( _ru. Людмила Стефановна Петрушевская) (born May 26 1938) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright. Petrushevskaya is regarded as one of Russia's most talented contemporary writers, whose writing combine postmodernist trends with the psychological insights and parodic touches of writers such as Anton Chekhov. In 1979, she was co-writer of the scenario for one of the most influential Russian animated films, "Tale of Tales". Her works include the 1992 novel "The Time Night", which was short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize, and "Immortal Love", a collection of short stories and monologues. Petrushevskaya's plays have been produced around the world and her stories published in more than 20 countries. In 2003 she was awarded the Pushkin Prize in Russian literature by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Germany. Lyudmila Petrushevskaya lives in Moscow, where she continues her work.

She served as a jury member in the 3rd Open Russian Festival of Animated Film in 1998.

...one of the finest living Russian writers...'The Times'

Writer, playwright, poet, painter, singer

Over the last several decades, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya has been one of the most admired and acclaimed contemporary writers at work in Eastern Europe, and beginning in the late 1980s her plays, stories and novels have been published in more than 30 languages all over the world. She has some 35 books published in Russia and both of her novels, The Time: Night and The Number One have been both shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize. Petrushevskaya was awarded The Pushkin Prize (Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Germany), The Russian State Prize for arts (2004), The Stanislavsky Award (2005), The Triumph Prize (2006).

"Russia is a land of women Homers" - Petrushevskaya has said

Coming up in 2009: The Penguine Classics just announced a new book by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya.