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Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (b. 1938)

Alias:
Людмила Петрушевская

Birthplace:
Moscow, USSR (Russia)

Born:
May 26, 1938

Biography from TheMovieDB

Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (born 26 May 1938) is a Russian writer, novelist, painter, singer, screenwriter and playwright. She began her career writing and putting on plays, which were often censored by the Soviet government, and following perestroika, published a number of well-respected works of prose.  She is best known for her plays, novels, including 'The Time: Night' (1992), and collections of short stories, notably 'There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby'. In 2017, she published a memoir, 'The Girl from the Metropol Hotel'. She is considered one of Russia's premier living literary figures, having been compared in style to Anton Chekhov and in influence to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Her works have won a number of accolades, including the Russian Booker Prize, the Pushkin Prize, and the World Fantasy Award.

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Film Production

Novel:
2016  Who needs it

Screenplay:
1997  Love
2016  Who needs it

Story:
1997  Love
2016  Who needs it
2020  Black Coat

Writer:
1976  Все непонятливые
1976  Лямзи-Тыри-Бонди, злой волшебник
1976  От тебя одни слёзы
1978  Краденое солнце
1988  Cat Which Could Sing
1997  Love
2001  Tale of Tales
2016  Who needs it
2020  Black Coat

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