Lyudmila Ulitskaya is one of the most widely read contemporary Russian authors. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. The writer is the winner of the Russian Booker and Big Book awards. The creative path and biography of Lyudmila Ulitskaya is the theme of today's story.
early years
Biography of Lyudmila Ulitskaya began in 1943, in Davlekanovo. In this small Bashkir city, the parents of the future writer were evacuated from Moscow. The family returned to the capital in 1945. Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s father was a doctor of technical sciences, the author of a number of works on agriculture and mechanics. The mother of the writer worked for many years at the Research Institute of Pediatrics of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR.
The biography of Lyudmila Ulitskaya, of course, left an imprint on her work. An important role was played by children's impressions. In 2013, the collection of short stories “Childhood 45-53. And tomorrow there will be happiness. ” The writer devoted this book to the children of war, to those who found the forties - an amazing period in the history of the country, characterized by a strange combination of poverty and unbreakable faith in tomorrow.
The heroes of the stories “Tomorrow will be happiness” are optimists, idealists, whom, according to the author, have not existed for a long time. And when creating these works, as Ulitskaya herself admits, she indulged in nostalgia for bygone days, for her childhood and adolescence, which for almost every person in years seems to be something fabulous.
Student years
The graduation field, the future writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya decided to follow in her mother's footsteps and entered the Faculty of Biology at Moscow State University. Strange as it may seem, the student years formed the qualities necessary for any prose writer in the heroine of this article. She learned to meditate, to observe. And one of the teachers - Vladimir Efroimson (Department of Genetics) - became for her an example of parity, industriousness, impeccable morality.
Biography of Lyudmila Ulitskaya includes a period of work at the Institute of General Genetics. But for a long time the graduate of the biological faculty did not last here. Two years later, she wrote a letter of resignation. The reason for the dismissal was a reprint of samizdat, for which many representatives of the Soviet intelligentsia were punished in the sixties. Ulitskaya did not work for some time. She failed to return to scientific activity.
The beginning of the creative path
After her dismissal from the research institute, Lyudmila Evgenievna Ulitskaya never worked in state institutions again. After a long search for work, she managed to triple the artist in the Jewish musical theater. Her responsibilities included writing dramas. During her time at the theater, Ulitskaya created more than a dozen plays, essays, and was also involved in literary translation. Years of work in the Jewish theater can be considered the beginning of the writer's work. However, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, however, began to publish her books much later.
The first work was published in 1993. It was a collection of "Poor Relatives." Ulitskaya's next book was praised by critics.
Confession
The novel "Medea and Her Children" caused a lot of positive reviews both in Russia and abroad. The reading part of the country was well acquainted with Ulitskaya’s work in the eighties, when her stories periodically appeared in literary magazines. In the early 90s, feature films were made from her books. Thus, the name of Ulitskaya becomes famous among those who prefer watching films to reading prose works.
In 1990, Vladimir Grammatikov made the film "Sisters of Liberty." Years later, Anatoly Mateshko created the film "Woman for All." Around this time, the story “Sonechka” appeared in the New World, later translated into all European languages and highly praised by Western critics. In 1999, the premiere of the film “It Is Easy to Die” according to the script of Lyudmila Ulitskaya, and two years later, perhaps the most famous novel by the Russian writer saw the light.
"The Case of Kukotsky"
For this novel, Ulitskaya Lyudmila Evgenievna was awarded the Russian Booker Prize. The book tells about the talented gynecologist Pavel Kukotsky and his family. The novel also touches on some important events from the history of the USSR, for example, the campaign against genetics. The plot of the work of Lyudmila Ulitskaya is quite tragic. The daughter of the protagonist - a man who devoted his life to medicine, dies in the hospital due to medical assistance not provided during the treatment. In 2005, the novel by Lyudmila Ulitskaya was filmed by director Yuri Grymov. The writer took part in creating the script for the television film.
Other books by Lyudmila Ulitskaya
The novel "Daniel Stein, translator" was published in 2006. The work became a bestseller and received the Big Book Award. The protagonist of the novel is a Jew Daniel Stein, who became a Catholic priest. The work is distinguished by an unusual composition, consists of conversations and letters of the heroes. The book caused mixed reviews. One British critic accused the writer of insufficient respect for the victims of the Holocaust.
In 2008, a collection of Ulitskaya’s plays, Russian Jam and Other, was published. Three years later, the novel "The Green Tent". Lyudmila Ulitskaya, whose books are captured from the first pages, wrote other works: “Jacob's Ladder”, “Sacred Garbage”, “Miraculous Gift”, “Merry Funeral”.
Personal life of Lyudmila Ulitskaya
The writer first married Yuri Thayts in her student years. This marriage did not last long. The second husband of the writer was the doctor of biological sciences Mikhail Evgeniev. In this marriage, two sons were born - Alex and Peter. The first became a businessman. Peter is a jazz musician, but in recent years he has been working as a simultaneous translator. Today, the wife of Lyudmila Ulitskaya is Andrei Krasulin - a Russian artist and sculptor.