Jelena Semyonovna Tschischowa

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Jelena Tschischowa (2017)

Jelena Semjonovna Tschischowa ( Russian Елена Семёновна Чижова , scientific transliteration: Elena Semёnovna Čižova ; born May 4, 1957 in Leningrad ) is a Russian writer.

Life

After studying economics, Tschischowa initially worked at university and in the private sector before she began to write in the mid-1990s, after having experienced a ship fire. In 2009 she received the Russian Booker Prize for the book The Silent Power of Women . By 2017 she had published nine books.

In 2018, she complained about xenophobia in Russia, which is being fueled by the state and its propaganda .

Tschischowa is the chair of the Saint Petersburg section of the Russian PEN Club .

Works

  • «Крошки Цахес» (2000)
  • «Лавра» (2002)
  • «Орест и сын» (2007)
  • «The silent power of women» (2009), published in German in 2012, translation by Dorothea Trottenberg
  • «Полукровка» (2010/2005)
  • «Die Terrakottafrau» (2011) published in German in 2015
  • «Неприкаянный дом» (2012)
  • «Планета грибов» (2014)
  • «Китаист» (2017)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Power women of the Soviet Union RBTH, June 29, 2012
  2. ↑ Spinning Threads of Fate , RBTH, October 25, 2012
  3. ↑ Jelena Tschischowa: Russians first and second choice , NZZ, November 5, 2018, page 8
  4. ↑ Elena Chizhowa on Perlentaucher.de
personal data
SURNAME Tschischowa, Jelena Semyonovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chizhova, Elena; Čižova, Elena Semenovna; Чижова, Елена Семёновна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad