Tatyana Tolstaya
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| Tatyana Tolstaya | |
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| Born | Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya 3 May 1951 Leningrad, USSR (now Saint Peterburg, Russia) |
| Occupation | Writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, essayist |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
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| About Tatyana Tolstaya (Russian) | |
Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya (Russian: Татья́на Ники́тична Толста́я; born 3 May 1951) is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist from the Tolstoy family.
Family
Tolstaya was born in Leningrad into a family of writers. Her paternal grandfather, Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, was a pioneering science fiction writer, and Natalia Krandievskaya, his wife, was a poet. Mikhail Lozinsky, her maternal grandfather, was a literary translator. Tolstaya's sister, Natalia was a writer as well. Her son, Artemy Lebedev, is the founder-owner of Art. Lebedev Studio, a Russian web design firm.[1]
Life and work
Tolstaya received her education at the department of classical philology of the Leningrad State University. She moved to Moscow in the early 1980s and started working in the Nauka publishing house.[citation needed]
Her first short story, "On a Golden Porch" (На златом крыльце сидели), appeared in Avrora magazine in 1983 and marked the start of Tolstaya's literary career. Her novel The Slynx/Kys (Кысь, 2000) is a dystopian novel filled with literary allusions. She co-hosts a Russian television programme, The School for Scandal (Школа злословия, named after a play by Richard Sheridan). She conducts interview with representatives of contemporary Russian culture and politics.[2]
Bibliography
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Books
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- Sleepwalker in a Fog, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991, then Vintage Books, 1993; ISBN 0-679-73063-X
- The Slynx New York Review of Books Classics, 2007; ISBN 1-59017-196-9
- White Walls New York Review of Books Classics, 2007; ISBN 1-59017-197-7
Essays and reporting
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References
- ↑ Ratings of top 100 leading Web design firms in Russia −2013 (Russian) Google translation
- ↑ Profile, rbth.com, 13 May 2015.
External links
- About Tatyana Tolstaya (Russian)
- Tolstaya in the Internet litcafe (Russian)
- Several reviews of Kys (Russian)
Online texts
- Articles with Russian-language external links
- Use dmy dates from June 2014
- Articles containing Russian-language text
- Articles with unsourced statements from October 2015
- Incomplete lists from March 2015
- 1951 births
- 20th-century women writers
- Living people
- Russian essayists
- Russian novelists
- Russian publishers (people)
- Russian short story writers
- Russian television personalities
- Russian women writers
- Saint Petersburg State University alumni
- Soviet novelists
- Soviet short story writers
- Soviet women writers
- The New Yorker people
- Tolstoy family
- Women essayists
- Women novelists
- Women short story writers
- Writers from Saint Petersburg
