Lyudmila Ulitskaya, whose biography interests all her fans, is a famous Russian contemporary writer. She became the first woman to win the Russian Booker Award. It happened in 2001. Her novels and stories are translated into more than 20 languages of the world.
Childhood and youth
In 1943, Lyudmila Ulitskaya was born. The biography of the author originates in Bashkiria. In the small town of Davlekanovo, her family was evacuated.
At that time, both her grandfathers were in prison, as they were repressed on political charges. Only when the war ended did her family return to Moscow.
Already in the capital, Ulitskaya graduated from high school and entered the biology faculty of Moscow State University.
After high school
The first place of work of the future writer was the Institute of Genetics at the USSR Academy of Sciences. From there, she quit in 1970. Since then, as Lyudmila Ulitskaya herself admits, her biography has never been associated with the public service. Although she changed many specialties.
She was the head of the literary part of the Jewish Jewish Musical Theater, composed plays for children, performances for radio and puppet theater, wrote essays and reviews of performances. At that time, even translated poetry from the Mongolian language.
She began to publish her own stories in magazines in the early 80s. Popularity came to her after about 10 years. After she undertook to write scripts for films.
Work as a screenwriter
In 1990, the melodrama Sisters of Liberty was released, the script for which was written by Lyudmila Evgenievna Ulitskaya. A short biography of the writer clearly demonstrates that soon she quickly went to success.
The film was directed by Vladimir Grammatikov. It was a straightforward story about two twin sisters who were fascinated by a fashionable modernist artist. He uses them as models, brings with his friends.
Romantic relationships and frank confessions make their life unpredictable, and the sisters themselves are put on the brink of life and death.
In 1991, she wrote the script for the melodrama by Anatoly Mateshko "Woman for All" Ulitskaya Lyudmila Evgenievna. The biography of the main character, as some critics noted, is somewhat similar to the fate of the writer herself.
The picture tells about the lonely librarian Anna, played by Larisa Udovichenko. The person closest to her is neighbor Mary. She is also alone, but not deprived of men's attention. There are sailor friends who regularly return from voyages, and Nikolai, who cannot leave his old family in any way because of his sick daughter.
Suddenly, Mary dies, she still has children, whom none of her relatives wants to take. As a result, they manage to stay in their home, and the main character looks after them. Soon she decides to take them under guardianship, in this she is supported by Nikolai, whom he no longer holds at home. A connection appears between them.
In 1992, Ulitskaya declared herself as a writer. Her story “Sonechka” was published in a thick literary magazine, which was soon recognized as the best translated book in France and received the Medici award, which has been celebrated by avant-garde writers since 1958.
Social work
Today, not only as a writer, but also as a public figure, the famous Ulitskaya Lyudmila Evgenievna. The writer's biography includes the creation in 2007 of a fund that bears her name. He is engaged in supporting humanitarian initiatives. In particular. the writer herself chooses the books of Russian publishers within the framework of the most popular project of the Good Books Foundation and sends them to Russian libraries for free.
From 2007 to 2010, she implemented another non-standard project aimed at reducing the feeling of distrust in other people and nationalities in society. “Another, others, about others,” was what Lyudmila Ulitskaya called him. In a short biography of the writer, he is designated as a series of books by various authors on cultural anthropology, intended primarily for children.
Ulitskaya still holds a tough stance on some socially significant issues. For example, in April 2014, she took part in the Ukraine-Russia: Dialogue congress, which was held in Kiev. At the same time, the writer repeatedly criticized the current government, accusing her of politicians turning Russia into a barbaric country.
In the 2016 parliamentary elections, the liberal party Yabloko was supported by writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Her biography began to develop in the political field. She acted as a confidant of this party.
Russian Booker
In 2001, she received the prestigious literary prize Lyudmila Ulitskaya. In the author’s biography this year is listed as successful. Her novel "The Case of Kukotsky" was appreciated.
In 2005, Yuri Grymov shot a 12-episode television movie based on this work.
"The Case of Kukotsky" is a detailed description of the life of the famous physician, professor of gynecology Pavel Alekseevich Kukotsky. He has a real talent as a diagnostician, he can literally see the internal organs of a patient affected by a disease.
During World War II, in evacuation, he rescues his future wife, whom the uterus removes in order to enable her to continue living. With the advent of peace, they began to live together.
Kukotsky began not only to treat patients, but also seriously engaged in science, even wrote projects on the organization of health care, sought in the Soviet Union the legalization of abortion.
For describing the whole life of this unusual Soviet family, Ulitskaya received, perhaps, the main literary prize in her life.
"Daniel Stein, translator"
Her next high-profile novel, which became a bestseller, was the book Daniel Stein, the Translator. She saw the light in 2006.
In this work, Ulitskaya again takes up the biography of the fate of one person. This time it's the Jewish translator Daniel Stein. Circumstances forced him to accept Catholicism and become a priest.
The novel has a very unusual composition. It is composed of letters and conversations of people, as if overheard by the narrator. All of them are somehow connected either with Stein himself or with people close to him.
Bibliography of the author
Ulitskaya during her creative career wrote several dozen books. These are not only novels, but also stories.
Her first editions were collections of short stories “Childhood-49,” “Second Person,” “First and Last,” “Stories about Animals and People,” “The Art of Living.”
At the same time, her novels The Through Line, the already mentioned Sonechka, the family chronicle Medea and Her Children, the story Funky Funeral, and another storybook Poor Relatives began to appear.
Her first novel was "The Case of Kukotsky." Then came collections of short stories “Girls”, “People of Our Tsar”, “Sacred Garbage”, novels “Sincerely Your Shurik”, “Daniel Stein, Translator”, “Green Tent”, a collection of plays “Russian Jam and Other”.
Her latest works, which saw the light, were a collection of short stories "Childhood 45-53. And there will be happiness tomorrow", the novel parable "Jacob's Ladder" and the collection "The Miraculous Gift", published in 2016.
Personal life
Lyudmila Ulitskaya, a biography whose personal life is well known to her fans, was married three times. She made her first marriage as a student. He was spontaneous and because of this short-lived.
Her second choice, at an already more conscious age, was the geneticist Mikhail Evgeniev. The couple has two sons - Peter and Alex. The third time she married the sculptor Andrei Krasulin Lyudmila Ulitskaya. The biography, the personal life of the writer has always been filled with bright moments.