15 Facts About Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya began her career writing short stories and plays, which were often censored by the Soviet government, and following perestroika, published a number of well-respected works of prose.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is best known for her plays, novels, including The Time: Night, and collections of short stories, notably There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is considered one of Russia's premier living literary figures, having been compared in style to Anton Chekhov and in influence to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya's works have won a number of accolades, including the Russian Booker Prize, the Pushkin Prize, and the World Fantasy Award.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya's creative interests and successes are wide-ranging, as she is a singer and has worked in film animation, screenwriting, and as a painter.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya lived there with her family until 1941, when her father, a Bolshevik intellectual, was declared an enemy of the state.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya abandoned Petrushevskaya and her mother, who were forced to flee the city for Kuibyshev.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya attended Moscow State University, from which she graduated with a degree in journalism.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is regarded as one of Russia's most prominent contemporary writers, and one of the most acclaimed writers at work in Eastern Europe; Publishers Weekly has stated that she is "generally considered to be one of the finest living Russian writers".

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya's writing combines postmodernist trends with the psychological insights and parodic touches of writers such as Anton Chekhov.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya spent most of her early career until perestroika writing and putting on plays rather than novels and stories, as the censorship of theater was often in practice less strict than that of written work.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya was additionally awarded the Russian State Prize for arts in 2004, the Stanislavsky Award in 2005, and the Triumph Prize in 2006.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is known to sing French and German jazz songs, and recently has begun writing her own.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is known as a visual artist; her portraits, nudes, and still lifes have been shown in Russia's major museums, including the Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, and State Museum of Literature, and private galleries.