Tatiana Nikitichna Tolstaya

Tatiana Tolstaya

Tatjana Nikititschna Tolstaja ( Russian Татьяна Никитична Толстая , scientific transliteration Tatjana Nikitična Tolstaja ; born May 3, 1951 in Leningrad ) is a Russian writer .

She studied classical philology and worked as a lecturer. In 1987 her first volume of short stories was published in Moscow , which made her famous in one fell swoop. Tolstaya spent a long time in the USA . Today she lives again in Russia, where she hosted the talk show Schkola sloslowija ( Шко́ла злосло́вия / "School of Blasphemy") from 2002 to 2014 . The author, whose works are published in Germany under the name Tatjana Tolstaja, comes from a noble family of writers and is a granddaughter of Alexei Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy .

Works

in German translation

• The sailor's wife and the witch . Story in the anthology Sea shows his tongue ( Du 2004, trans. Christiane Körner )
• Kys . Novel. Translated from Christiane Körner. Rowohlt , Reinbek 2003
• Foreword to Russia: a world power in transition . National Geographic Publishing , 2001
• And a fire fell from the sky . Six stories. Translated by Sylvia List . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992
• Stories. Luchterhand 1991, transl. Sylvia List, therein:

1. Sonja
2. Goodbye
3. A blank sheet
4. The circle
5. Mammoth hunt
6. Peters
7. The fakir

• Meet with a bird . Stories ( Luchterhand 1989, transl. Sylvia List), therein:

1. "Sat on golden steps ..."
2. The Okkerwil.
3. Dear Shura. (also in: Russian love stories , Rotbuch Verlag , 2003)
4. Meet with a bird
5. Fire and dust
6. Sleep peacefully, my little son (also in: Russian stories of the present . Reclam-Verlag , 1992)
7. Poet and muse.

• Rendezvous with a bird . Stories. Translated by Ilse Tschörtner , Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin 1989, therein:

1. Rendezvous with a bird
2. Dear Shura
3. Peters
4. Sleep well, my little son
5. The river Okkerwil
6. Sonja
7. The poet and the muse
8. "Sitting on the golden podium in the courtyard ..."
9. The fakir
10. Fire and dust

literature

• Bettina Flitner , Alice Schwarzer : Women with visions: 50 European women. Knesebeck, 2006. ISBN 978-3-89660-357-9
• Christa Ebert: Literature in Eastern Europe: Russia and Poland. Academy, Berlin 2010.
• Hartmut Kasper : Kys . In: The Science Fiction Year 2004 , ed. by Sascha Mamczak and Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag Munich 2004, ISBN 3-453-87896-5 , pp. 924-926.
• Michael Krüger (Ed.): Akzente: Zeitschrift für Literatur. Issue 3 / June 1989.

Web links

• Literature by and about Tatjana Nikititschna Tolstaja in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Tatjana Nikititschna Tolstaja in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)