13 Facts About Alla Latynina

Alla Nikolayevna Latynina is a Russian literary critic.

Alla Latynina's husband is the writer and poet Leonid Latynin.

Alla Latynina is the mother of Russian writer and journalist Yulia Latynina.

Alla Nikolayevna Latynina was born on 4 July 1940 in Moscow into the family of an office worker.

Alla Latynina graduated from the Department of Philology, Moscow University in 1963 upon which she took a post-graduate course at the Department of Philosophy, Moscow University.

Alla Latynina defended her PhD on the subject of "Critique of the Existential Interpretation of Dostoyevsky".

Alla Latynina was a columnist on the VremyaMN weekly since 2002.

Alla Latynina was a columnist on the Novy Mir magazine since 2001.

Alla Latynina was on the editorial board of the Moscow Vestnik magazine ; on the board of the book series "Anons" at Moskovsky Rabochy Publishers, and the Strelets magazine.

Alla Latynina served as chairman on the following juries: Russian Booker Prize in 1992, Appolon Grigoryev Prize in 2001, Alexander Blok Prize in 2000, Russian Subject Prize in 2002.

Alla Latynina was the winner of the Literary Gazette Prize and the Journalists Union Prize in 1977.

Alla Latynina was the winner of the Novy Mir Prize in 2005.

Alla Latynina was a member of the Writers Union since 1979.