Anya Ulinich
Anya Ulinich (* 1973 in Moscow ) is a Russian-born , American painter and writer.
Life
Ulinich came to the USA as an immigrant with her parents in 1990 at the age of 17 and now lives in New York . She graduated from the University of California with a degree in painting.
Ulinich has been writing since 2000. Her first novel, Petropolis , was published in 2007 and received the “5 under 35” award for writers under 35 from the National Book Foundation, which also awards the better-known National Book Award . Petropolis tells the odyssey of a young woman who grows up in the fictional Soviet model city Asbest2 (a reference to the real Russian city of Asbestos ) and goes to New York City via Arizona and Chicago to look for her father and a future for herself there. For Petropolis she received the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction in 2008 and was nominated for the Sami Rohr Prize of the Jewish Book Council in 2009. In 2008 the novel was published in German translation under the title Petropolis. The great journey of the mail order bride Sascha Goldberg in the translation by Pieke Biermann . The title of the book refers to a poem by Ossip Mandelstam . She also published some short stories.
Web links
- Literature by and about Anya Ulinich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Anya Ulinich at Perlentaucher
- Focus article with book description and photo of the author
- Interview with the author, with examples of their artwork on the homepage of the author (Engl.)
- Anya Ulinich's acceptance speech at the presentation of the 5under35 award
- Yelena Furman, "Hybridizing the canon: Russian-American writers in dialogue with Russian literature" Canadian Slavonic Papers 58, no.3 (2016)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ulinich, Anya |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Улинич, Анна Сергеевна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |