Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya is a critically acclaimed modern Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

ist and short-story writer

Writer

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. She was born in the town of Davlekanovo

Davlekanovo

Davlekanovo is a town in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located on the Dyoma River west of Ufa. Population: -History:It has been known since the mid-18th century as the village of Itkulovo ; later renamed Davlekanovo. Urban-type settlement status was granted to it in 1928 and town status...

 in Bashkiria

Bashkortostan

The Republic of Bashkortostan , also known as Bashkiria is a federal subject of Russia . It is located between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains. Its capital is the city of Ufa...

 on February 21, 1943. She grew up in Moscow

Moscow

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 where she took a degree in genetics

Genetics

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 from the Moscow State University.
Having worked in the field of genetics

Genetics

Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....

 and biochemistry

Biochemistry

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, Ulitskaya began her literary career by joining the Jewish drama

Drama

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 theatre

Theatre

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 as a literary consultant. She was the author of two movie scripts produced in the early 1990s: The Liberty Sisters (Сестрички Либерти, 1990) and A Woman for All (Женщина для всех, 1991).

Ulitskaya's first novella, Sonechka

Sonechka

Sonechka is a novella and collection of short stories by Russian writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya. It was originally published in Russian in the literary journal Novy Mir in 1992, and translated into English by Arch Tait in 2005. Sonechka was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize.-Plot Summary :Sonechka...

(Сонечка), published in Novy Mir

Novy Mir

Novy Mir is a Russian language literary magazine that has been published in Moscow since January 1925. It was supposed to be modelled on the popular pre-Soviet literary magazine Mir Bozhy , which was published from 1892 to 1906, and its follow-up, Sovremenny Mir , which was published 1906-1917...

in 1992, almost immediately became extremely popular, and was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Award.