Lyudmila Ulitskaya is a famous Russian contemporary writer. The first woman to win the Russian Booker Prize. Her novels and stories have been translated into more than 20 languages of the world.
Biography of Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Lyudmila Ulitskaya was born in the midst of the Great Patriotic War. Her entire family was evacuated to a small town in Bashkiria. And only after the end of the war, her family was able to return to the capital. In Moscow, Ulitskaya graduated from high school and entered the biological faculty of Moscow State University.
After graduation, Ulitskaya worked at the Institute of Genetics. This was the first and last place where she worked as a civil servant. After retiring from there in 1970, she changed many specialties. Most of her activities revolved around the theater, but she also translated poetry and wrote stories. For the first time her works were published in the early 80s. But popularity will come only 10 years later, when Ulitskaya begins to compose scripts for films. Her first works in this field were "Liberty Sisters" directed by Vladimir Grammatikov and "Woman for All" directed by Anatoly Mateshko.
They started talking seriously about Ulitskaya as a writer only in 1992 after the publication of the story "Sonechka". This work became the best translated book in France and even won the Medici Prize.
In 2001, Lyudmila Ulitskaya became a laureate of the Russian Booker Prize, which she was awarded for the novel "Kukotsky's Case". Based on the work, four years later, the eponymous television series directed by Yuri Grymov will be filmed.
Another equally successful work of Ulitskaya was the book, published in 2006, "Daniel Stein". The book was devoted to the biography of a Jewish translator, who was forced to change his faith and put on a cassock.
Throughout her long and fruitful career, Ulitskaya wrote more than twenty novels and short stories. Among her last works are the novel-parable "Jacob's Ladder" and the collection "The Gift Not Made by Hands."
Also Ulitskaya Lyudmila Evgenievna is widely known as a public figure. In 2007, the Ulitskaya Foundation was established to support humanitarian initiatives. In addition, she is the initiator of another interesting project, within the framework of which the prevention of feelings of mistrust towards people of different nationalities is carried out. In his biography, the author says that this project is addressed primarily to children and is a series of books by different authors on the topic of cultural anthropology.
As for political issues, Lyudmila Ulitskaya always takes a fairly clear position. So, she repeatedly criticized the position of the Russian authorities on the issue of Russian-Ukrainian relations, and in the 2016 elections she supported the Yabloko party.
Personal life
The writer was married three times. The first marriage occurred during his student years. It turned out to be short-lived. For the second time, Ulitskaya married the geneticist Mikhail Evgeniev. In marriage, they had two sons. Ulitskaya's third husband was Andrei Krasulin, a famous Russian sculptor.
The children of Lyudmila Evgenievna have grown up long ago. One of them works as a jazz musician, the other is a businessman. Ulitskaya has two grandsons and a granddaughter. The writer plans to release four more books on the "Children's Project", which could teach children kindness, mutual respect and goodwill towards other people.
