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Biography, life story of Petrushevskaya Lyudmila Stefanovna
Petrushevskaya Lyudmila Stefanovna is a Russian writer.Childhood and youth
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya was born in Moscow on May 26, 1938. Her father was a scientist, Ph.D., her mother was an editor. When Luda was still quite a baby, the war began. The girl spent some time in an orphanage in Ufa, and then her grandfather Nikolai Feofanovich Yakovlev, a Caucasian linguist, and grandmother Valentina took her to be raised. It is important to note that Nikolai Yakovlev was against teaching his granddaughter to read early. But Luda had a passion for literature in her blood - she learned to distinguish letters secretly from her grandfather, while still quite a baby.
In 1941, Luda and her grandparents were evacuated from Moscow to Kuibyshev. There Petrushevskaya spent several years of her life. After the end of the war, she returned to Moscow, graduated from high school, and then became a student at Moscow State University, Faculty of Journalism.
Work
After a successful defense thesis Lyudmila Petrushevskaya worked for some time as a correspondent in various newspapers in Moscow, collaborated with various publishing houses. In 1972, Lyudmila became an editor at the Central Television Studio.
writing work
Lyudmila began to write poetry and prose in her youth. During her student days, she wrote scripts for skits and creative evenings, received real pleasure from this, but she did not even dream of being a serious writer. Everything turned out somehow by itself - naturally, smoothly, naturally.
In 1972, Petrushevskaya's story "Through the Fields" appeared on the pages of the Aurora magazine. It was Lyudmila's writing debut, after which she disappeared for ten years. Only in the second half of the 1980s did her works begin to be published again. Very soon her plays were noticed by theater directors. At first, productions based on her texts hit the stages of small and amateur theaters, and over time, eminent temples of art began to stage performances along Petrushevskaya with pleasure. So, in the Theater-Studio of the Palace of Culture "Moskvorechye" they staged her play "Music Lesson", in the Gaudeamus Theater in Lviv - "Cinzano", in the Taganka Theater - "Love", in "Sovremennik" - "Colombina's Apartment", in Moscow Art Theater - "Moscow Choir". Lyudmila Petrushevskaya was a fairly popular and popular author, despite the fact that long time she had to write “on the table”, since many editorial offices could not print her creations, boldly telling about the shadow aspects of life.
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Lyudmila Petrushevskaya wrote stories and plays in various formats (jokes, dialogues, monologues), novels, novellas and fairy tales for both children and adults. According to some scenarios of Lyudmila Stefanovna, films and cartoons were made - "The Stolen Sun", "The Cat Who Could Sing" and others.
Separately, it is worth noting the books by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya about the adventures of Peter Pig, created by her in 2002: "Pig Peter and the car", "Pig Peter and the store", "Pig Peter goes to visit". In 2008, a cartoon based on this story was made. And in 2010, Peter Piglet became an Internet meme after a video appeared on the network for the song “Peter Piglet Eat ...”, created by users Lein (text and music) and Artem Chizhikov (video sequence). However, not only Internet fame makes Peter the Piglet a special character in Petrushevskaya. The fact is that in 1943, the American writer Betty Howe published her book entitled "Peter Pig and his air travel." The stories of Petrushevskaya and Howe are very similar in many details, including the main idea and the name of the protagonist.
Other activities
Along with the creation literary works Lyudmila Petrushevskaya created the "Handmade Studio", in which she herself became an animator. Also, the writer, as part of the One Author Cabaret project, performed popular songs of the past century, read her poems and even recorded solo albums (Don't Get Used to the Rain, 2010; Dreams of Love, 2012).
Lyudmila Stefanovna, among other things, is also an artist. She often organized exhibitions and auctions, where she sold her paintings, and donated the profits to orphanages.
Family
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya's husband was Boris Pavlov, director of the Solyanka Gallery. Husband and wife spent a lot of time together happy years. They gave birth to three children - sons Cyril and Fedor and daughter Natalya. Kirill is a journalist, ex-deputy chief editor of the Kommerant publishing house, ex-deputy chief editor of the Moscow News newspaper, deputy chief editor of the Vedomosti newspaper. Fedor is a journalist and performance artist, theater director. Natalia is a musician, creator of the funk band Clean Tone (Moscow).
In 2009, Lyudmila Stefanovna buried her beloved husband.
Awards and prizes
In 1991, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya received the Pushkin Prize from the Töpfer Foundation. In 1993, the writer was awarded the prize of the magazine "October". She also received the same recognition from the same magazine in 1996 and 2000. In 1995, Petrushevskaya became the winner of the award of the magazine " New world”, in 1996 - the winner of the Znamya magazine award, in 1999 - the Zvezda magazine. In 2002, Lyudmila Stefanovna received the Triumph Prize and the State Prize Russian Federation. In 2008, Petrushevskaya became a laureate Bunin Prize. In the same year, she was awarded the Literary Prize named after
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya can certainly be called one of the outstanding domestic writers last century. She is the author of a significant number of stories and children's books; theatrical plays films have been made. Her work has become a discovery for many: the author quite harshly, and sometimes simply ruthlessly, without embellishment, describes all the difficulties of life.
Childhood
Petrushevskaya Lyudmila Stefanovna was born on May 26, 1938 in Moscow. Her parents were good educated people. Mom worked as an editor, dad was a linguist. Petrushevskaya's grandfather is Nikolai Yakovlev, a Soviet scientist, professor of linguistics.
The childhood of the writer took place in a difficult military and postwar period which undoubtedly left its mark on her fate. The girl, fleeing the war, was forced to live with distant relatives, and then she was completely brought up in one of the orphanages near Ufa.
Having matured, Lyudmila decided to connect her life with journalism. And therefore, after receiving a school certificate, the girl enters Moscow State University, at the Faculty of Journalism. She graduated in 1961 and got a job as a journalist. After Petrushevskaya changed jobs several times. In the early 70s, she got a job as an editor at the Central Television Studio.
creative path
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya began to compose her first poems in her youth. They were quite simple and light. The poetess herself at that time did not take her work seriously, she did not intend to become a writer. However, talent is not so easy to hide: while studying at the university, Petrushevskaya wrote scripts for various student events. In the mid-60s, the first plays appeared, but for a long time she did not dare to publish them.
Her plays were interesting, vital, close to many. Therefore, it is not surprising that directors noticed them. Of course, famous theaters could not take a work of a little-known author for staging. But small theaters willingly worked with her works. So, in 1979, the play “Music Lessons” was staged at the R. Viktyuk Theater. And the Lviv theater "Gaudeamus" presented the audience with the play "Cinzano".
Only after 1980 did people begin to pay more attention to the work of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya. famous theaters. These were the performances:
- "Love" - Taganka Theatre.
- "Apartment of Colombina" - "Contemporary".
- "Moscow Choir" - Moscow Art Theater.
- "Cabaret of one actor" - Theater. A. Raikin.
It is noteworthy that for a long time Lyudmila Petrushevskaya could not publish. Her stories and plays were not officially banned, but the editors of the publishing houses did not want to accept for publication works on rather difficult social topics. And Petrushevskaya wrote exactly them. However, the refusal to print the poetess did not stop.
Despite the fact that Petrushevskaya wrote books on social topics, poems and poems very easily (what is worth one of her cycles about the life of women!), She gradually changed her field of activity. The writer became interested in creating children's books, and also tried to write romance novels.
In 1984, her new cycle was published - linguistic fairy tales "Battered Puski". In 1990-2000, she wrote "The Treatment of Vasily", "Tales about the ABC", "Real Tales". A little later, the "Book of Princesses", "The Adventures of Peter the Pig" were published. Based on the fairy tales about Peter the pig, several animated films.
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya's works have been translated into more than 20 languages of the world and are published today in many countries. The last book writers “From the first person. Conversations about the Past and the Present” was released in 2012. After Lyudmila Stefanovna switched to other types of creativity, still continuing to write, but in smaller volumes.
Family
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya was married several times. Little is known about the first husband of the writer - he died, leaving his wife with their young son Cyril. After Petrushevskaya married the art historian Boris Pavlov. In this marriage, two more children were born - son Fedor and daughter Natalya.
A talented person is talented in everything
Petrushevskaya was engaged in the creation of cartoons based on her own fairy tales. She founded the animation "Studio of Manual Labor", where she spent a lot of time drawing cartoons using modern computer technology.
The writer has another talent - she is fond of painting and even graduated professional courses. Petrushevskaya paints paintings and sells them, and transfers the proceeds to a charitable foundation that takes care of orphans.
In 1991, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya was under investigation, even for some time she was forced to hide, living abroad. She was accused of insulting President Gorbachev.
It happened like this: the writer sent a letter to the Lithuanian government, her message was translated and published in one of the newspapers. This letter contained rather unpleasant statements for the authorities, in particular for Gorbachev. However, the case was closed after Gorbachev was removed from power. Author: Natalya Nevmyvakova
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya was born on May 26, 1938 in Moscow. The girl grew up in a family of students of the Institute of Philosophy, Literature, History. Granddaughter of a linguist, orientalist professor Nikolai Yakovlev. Mom, Valentina Nikolaevna Yakovleva, later worked as an editor. She practically did not remember her father, Stefan Antonovich.
After school, which the girl graduated with a silver medal, Lyudmila entered the Faculty of Journalism of the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov.
After receiving her diploma, Petrushevskaya worked as a correspondent for " Latest news» All-Union Radio in Moscow. Then she got a job in the magazine with records "Krugozor", after which she switched to television in the review department. Later, Lyudmila Stefanovna got into the department advanced planning, the only futuristic institution in the USSR where it was necessary to predict from 1972 soviet television for the year two thousand. After working for one year, the woman quit and since that time has not worked anywhere else.
Petrushevskaya began writing early. She published notes in the newspapers "Moskovsky Komsomolets", "Moskovskaya Pravda", the magazine "Crocodile", the newspaper "Nedelya". The first published works were the stories "The Story of Clarissa" and "The Narrator", which appeared in the magazine "Aurora" and caused sharp criticism in the "Literary Gazette". In 1974, the story “Nets and Traps” was also published there, then “Through the Fields”.
The play “Music Lessons” was staged by Roman Viktyuk in 1979 at the Student Theater of Moscow State University. However, after six performances, it was banned, then the theater moved to the Moskvorechye Palace of Culture, and Lessons was banned again in the spring of 1980. The play was published in 1983 in the brochure "To Help amateur performances».
Lyudmila Stefanovna is a generally recognized literary classic, the author of the set prose works, plays and books for children, among which are the famous "linguistic fairy tales" "Bat Puski", written in a non-existent language. Petrushevskaya's stories and plays have been translated into many languages of the world, her dramatic works staged in Russia and abroad. Part of the Bavarian Academy of Arts
In 1996, the publishing house "AST" published her first collected works. She also wrote scripts for animated films "Lyamzi-Tyri-Bondi, evil wizard"," All the slow-witted", "The Stolen Sun", "Tale of Tales", "The Cat Who Could Sing", "Hare's Tail", "There Are Only Tears From You", "Peter Pig" and the first part of the film "Overcoat" in co-authorship with Yuri Norstein.
Not limited to literature plays own theater, draws cartoons, makes cardboard dolls and raps. Participant of the project "Snob", a unique discussion, information and public space for people living in different countries, since December 2008.
In total, more than ten children's books by Petrushevskaya were printed. Performances are staged: "He is in Argentina" at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, the plays "Love", "Cinzano" and "Smirnova's Birthday" in Moscow and in different cities Russia, graphics exhibitions are held in State Museum Fine Arts named after Pushkin, Literary Museum, in the Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg, in private galleries in Moscow and Yekaterinburg.
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya performing with concert programs under the name "Cabaret of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya" in Moscow, in Russia, abroad: in London, Paris, New York, Budapest, in Pula, Rio de Janeiro, where he performs hits of the twentieth century in his translation, as well as songs of his own composition .
Petrushevskaya also created the "Manual Studio", in which she draws cartoons on her own with the help of a mouse. The films "K. Ivanov's Conversations" together with Anastasia Golovan, "Pins-nez", "Horror", "Ulysses: we drove, we arrived", "Where are you" and "Mumu" were made.
In parallel, Lyudmila Stefanovna founded small theater"Cabaret of one author", where he performs with his orchestra the best songs 20th century in own translations: Lily Marlene, Fallen Leaves, Chattanooga.
In 2008, the "Northern Palmyra" Foundation, together with the international association " Live classic” organized the International Petrushevskaya Festival, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the birth and the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first book of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya.
AT free time Lyudmila Stefanovna is fond of reading books by philosopher Merab Mamardashvili and writer Marcel Proust.
In November 2015, Petrushevskaya became a guest of the III Far Eastern Theater Forum. On the stage of the Chekhov Center staged the play "Smirnova's Birthday" based on her play. Participated directly in children's concert"Pig Peter invites." To the accompaniment of the Jazz Time group, she sang children's songs and read fairy tales.
On February 4, 2019, Moscow hosted the final debates and awarding of the winners for the tenth time. literary prize"Nose". The “Critical Community Prize” was won by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya for her work “We were stolen. History of crimes.
Awards and Prizes of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Laureate of the Pushkin Prize of the Toepfer Foundation (1991)
Magazine Award Winner:
"New World" (1995)
"October" (1993, 1996, 2000)
"Banner" (1996)
"Star" (1999)
Winner of the Triumph Award (2002)
Laureate of the State Prize of Russia (2002)
Laureate of the Bunin Prize (2008)
Literary Prize named after N.V. Gogol in the "Overcoat" nomination for the best prose work: "The Little Girl from the Metropol", (2008)
Ludmila Petrushevskaya received the World Fantasy Award (WFA) for best compilation stories published in 2009. Petrushevskaya's collection “Once upon a time there was a woman who wanted to kill a neighbor's child: scary stories» (There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby) shared the award with a book of selected novels American writer Gene Wolfe).
Creativity of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Bibliography
Collected works in five volumes. - M.: AST; Kharkov: Folio. 1996.
Novels and short stories
1992 - Night time.
2004 - Number One, or In the gardens of other possibilities. - M.: Eksmo. - 335 p. - ISBN 5-699-05993-8.
2017 - We were stolen. History of crimes. - M.: Eksmo. - ISBN 978-5-04-090046-6
Plays
1973 - Music lessons.
1973 - Love.
1973 - Colombina's apartment.
2007 - Columbine's Apartment: A Collection of Plays. - St. Petersburg: Amphora. - 415 p.
2007 - Moscow Choir: a collection of plays. - St. Petersburg: Amphora. - 448 p.
Fairy tales
Wild Animals Tales.
Sea slop stories.
1984 - Puski Byatye.
2008 - The Book of Princesses. - M.: Rosmen-Press. - 208 p.
A story with a sad ending.
Collections of short stories and novellas
immortal love.- M .: Moscow worker, 1988, shooting range. 30,000, cover.
Ball last man. - M.: Lokid, 1996. 26,000 copies.
2008 - Border tales about kittens. - St. Petersburg: Amphora. - 296 p.
2008 - Black butterfly. - St. Petersburg: Amphora. - 304 p.
2009 - Two kingdoms. - St. Petersburg: Amphora. - 400 s.
2009 - Stories from mine own life. - St. Petersburg: Amphora. - 568 p.
Discography
2010 - solo album "Don't Get Used to the Rain" (as an attachment to the magazine "Snob")
2012 - solo album "Dreams of Love" (as an appendix to the magazine "Snob")
Filmography
Scenarios
1974 "Treatment of Vasily" Merry Carousel No. 6
1976 Lyamzi-tyri-bondi, the evil wizard, dir. M. Novogrudskaya.
1976 "There are only tears from you" dir. Vladimir Samsonov
1978 The Stolen Sun, dir. Nathan Lerner
1979 "Tale of Tales", dir. Yuri Norstein.
1981 "Overcoat", dir. Yuri Norstein.
1984 "Hare Tail", dir. V. Kurchevsky.
1987 "All the dumb" dir. Nathan Lerner
1988 The Cat Who Could Sing, dir. Nathan Lerner.
1997 "Puski beaten" release of the animated series "Tales new Russia"- dir. Robert Saakyants?
1997 Love, dir. Vladimir Mirzoev
2000 "Date"
2008 "Pig Peter"
Family of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Widow, late husband - Boris Pavlov, director of the Solyanka Gallery
Three kids:
Kirill Kharatyan (born August 29, 1964) is a journalist. He worked as deputy editor-in-chief at the Kommersant publishing house, deputy editor-in-chief of the Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper. Since 2005 - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Vedomosti newspaper.
Natalya Pavlova (born 1982) is a musician, founder of the Moscow funk band C.L.O.N.E.
Petrushevskaya Lyudmila Stefanovna - prose writer, playwright, poet, screenwriter, author of watercolors and monotypes, artist and director of eight of her own animated films ("Manual Labor Studio"), composer and singer, creator traveling theater"Cabaret of Ludmila Petrushevskaya".
She was born on May 26, 1938 in Moscow in a family of IFLI students (Institute of Philosophy, Literature, History). Granddaughter of the linguist, professor-orientalist N. F. Yakovlev. Mom, Valentina Nikolaevna Yakovleva, later worked as an editor, father, Stefan Antonovich Petrushevsky, whom L.S. almost did not know, became a doctor of philosophy.
L.S., whose family was subjected to repressions (three were shot), survived a severe famine during the war, lived with relatives who were not given work (as members of the family of enemies of the people), and also, after the war, in an orphanage for disabled children and tuberculosis patients who survived the famine near Ufa. She graduated from school in Moscow with a silver medal, received a diploma from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University.
She began to write early, published notes in newspapers (Moskovsky Komsomolets, 1957, Mosk. Pravda, 1958, Krokodil magazine, 1960, Nedelya newspaper, 1961), worked as a correspondent All-Union radio and the magazine "Krugozor". She wrote her first story in 1968 (“Such a Girl”, published 20 years later in the Ogonyok magazine), and from that moment she wrote mostly prose. She sent stories to various magazines, they were returned, only the Leningrad Aurora responded. The first published works there were the stories "The Story of Clarissa" and "The Narrator", which appeared in 1972 in the journal "Aurora" and caused sharp criticism in the "Literary Gazette". In 1974, the story "Nets and Traps", then "Across the Fields" was published there. In total, by 1988, only seven stories had been published, one children's play (“Two Windows”) and several fairy tales. Having joined the Writers' Union in 1977, L.P. earned money by translating from Polish, articles in magazines. In 1988 she addressed a letter to Gorbachev, the letter was sent for a response to the Writers' Union. And the secretary of the Union of Writers, Ilyin, helped with the publication of the first book (Immortal Love, 1988, Moskovsky Rabochiy publishing house, thirty thousand copies).
The play "Music Lessons" was staged by Roman Viktyuk in 1979 at the Student Theater of Moscow State University, after 6 performances it was banned, then the theater moved to the recreation center "Moskvorechye", and "Lessons" was banned again in the spring of 1980 (the play was published in 1983 in periodical, in the brochure "To Help Amateur Art", with a circulation of 60 thousand copies).
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is the author of many prose works and plays, books for children. She also wrote scripts for animated films "Lyamzi-Tyri-Bondi, the Evil Wizard" (1976), "All the Dumb Ones" (1976), "The Stolen Sun" (1978), "The Tale of Tales" (1979, jointly with Y. Norshtein ), “The Cat Who Could Sing” (1988), “Hare Tail”, “Only Tears From You”, “Peter Piglet” and the first part of the film “The Overcoat” (co-authored with Y. Norshtein).
Petrushevskaya's stories and plays have been translated into many languages of the world, her dramatic works are staged in Russia and abroad.
Laureate International Prize"Alexander Puschkin" (1991, Hamburg), State Prize Russian Federation in the field of literature and art (2002), the Triumph Independent Prize (2002), the Bunin Prize, the Stanislavsky Theater Prize, the World Fantasy Award for the collection "Once upon a time there was a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's child" , humorous award "Small Golden Ostap" for the collection "Wild Animals Tales", etc.
Academician of the Bavarian Academy of Arts.
In 1991, from February to August, she was under investigation for insulting President M. S. Gorbachev. The reason was a letter to Lithuania after the introduction of Soviet tanks into Vilnius, reprinted in Vilnius and translated in the Yaroslavl newspaper "Northern Bee". The case was closed due to the resignation of the President.
AT last years her books are published - prose, poetry, drama, fairy tales, journalism, more than 10 children's books have been printed, performances are staged - "He is in Argentina" at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, the plays "Love", "Cinzano" and "Smirnova's Birthday" in Moscow and in different cities of Russia, exhibitions of graphics are held (in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, in the Literary Museum, in the Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg, in private galleries in Moscow and Yekaterinburg ). L. Petrushevskaya performs with concert programs called "Cabaret of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya" in Moscow, in Russia, abroad - in London, Paris, New York, Budapest, in Pula, Rio de Janeiro, where she performs hits of the twentieth century in her translation, as well as songs of his own composition.
Started selling her watercolors and monotypes - via the Internet - in favor of orphanage for disabled teenagers in Porkhov near Pskov. Sick children live there, whom the PROBO Rostock Charitable Society saved from staying in the senile home for psychochronic invalids, where they are sent at the age of 15 after orphanages - for life. Children are taught by teachers, they get used to independence, grow vegetables, do needlework, housework, etc. Now hard times they need help.
Date of Birth: 26.05.1938
playwright, prose writer, children's writer, screenwriter, animator, artist. Dramaturgy and prose Petrushevskaya - one of the most analyzed phenomena domestic literature. Her work, which is a mixture of realism and absurdity, physiology and spirituality, sometimes causes conflicting responses from critics and readers.
Born in Moscow in the family of an employee. She lived a difficult military half-starved childhood, wandered around her relatives, lived in an orphanage near Ufa. By own confession, "stealing herring heads from a neighbor's garbage pail", and saw her mother for the first time at the age of 9.
After the war she returned to Moscow, graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University (1961). She worked as a correspondent for Moscow newspapers, an employee of publishing houses, since 1972 - an editor at the Central Television Studio. She began writing short stories in the mid-1960s. The first published work of the author was the story "Through the Fields", which appeared in 1972 in the magazine "Aurora". Although Petrushevskaya was accepted into the Writers' Union (1977), her works were not published for a very long time. about any political topics the writer did not even mention it, but the unattractive description of Soviet life contradicted the official ideology. Petrushevskaya's first book was published in 1988, when the writer was already 50 years old.
The very first plays were noticed by amateur theaters: the play "Music Lessons" (1973) was staged by R. Viktyuk, the first production on the professional stage was the play Love (1974) at the Taganka Theater (directed by Yu. Lyubimov). And right there, Petrushevskaya's plays were banned and until the second half of the 80s they were not staged on the professional stage. Despite the ban, Petrushevskaya was the informal leader of the post-Vampilovskaya new wave in the dramaturgy of the 70s and 80s. Also in the 1970s and 1980s, several animated films were made based on Petrushevskaya's scripts. Including the famous "Tale of Tales" by Y. Norshtein.
The writer's attitude to the secondary nature changed with the beginning of perestroika. Her plays began to be actively staged, prose printed. Petrushevskaya became famous a wide range readers and viewers. However, despite the well-deserved fame, the writer continued her literary experiments, creating works in the genre of absurdity, actively mastering the "profession" of a storyteller. The writer paints watercolors and takes part in rather extravagant musical projects. At the age of 70, Petrushevskaya became interested in animation and even created her own "studio": the Manual Labor Studio. Petrushevskaya is a member of the Russian PEN Center and Academician of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya lives and works in Moscow. Widow, husband director of the Gallery "on Solyanka" Boris Pavlov (died September 19, 2009).
Torah children. Two sons (Kirill Kharatyan and Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich) are well-known journalists. Daughter (Natalya Pavlova) is engaged in music.
military childhood left a deep mark on the personality of Petrushevskaya. " German always scary for me. I learned many languages, I speak several, but not German," says the writer.
Animated film "Tale of Tales" by joint scenario L. Petrushevskaya and Y. Norshtein was recognized as “the best animated film of all times and peoples” according to the results of an international survey conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts in conjunction with ASIFA-Hollywood, Los Angeles (USA), 1984
Petrushevskaya claims that it was her profile that served as a "source of inspiration" for Y. Norshtein when creating the main character of "Fairy Tales" Hedgehog.
In 2003, Petrushevskaya, together with the Moscow free-jazz-rock ensemble Inquisitorium, released the album No. 5. The Middle of Big Julius, where she read and sang her poems to the accompaniment of whistling, the rumble of the ocean or barking dogs.
Writer's Awards
(Hamburg, 1991)
Twice nominated for "" (1992 and 2004)
Prizes of the magazine "October" (1993, 1996, 2000)
New World magazine award (1995)
Znamya magazine award (1996)
Moscow-Penne Award (Italy, 1996)
Prize to them. S. Dovlatov of the Zvezda magazine (1999) (2002)
(2002)
Festival Award " new drama» (2003)
Stanislavsky Theater Prize (2004)
Nominated for (2008)
in the nomination "Collection" (2010)
Bibliography
L. Petrushevskaya - author a large number plays, short stories, novellas, fairy tales, etc. The writer's works are collected in the following collections:
Immortal Love (1988)
Songs of the 20th century (1988)
Three Girls in Blue (1989)
Your Circle (1990)
Basil's Treatment and Other Tales (1991)
On the road of the god Eros (1993)
House Mystery (1995)
Tale of the ABC (1997)
House of Girls (1998)
Karamzin: Village diary (2000)
Find Me Dream (2000)
Queen Lear (2000)
Requiems (2001)
Time is night (2001)
Waterloo Bridge (2001)
Nonsense Suitcase (2001)
Happy Cats (2001)
Where I've Been: Tales from Another Reality (2002)
Such a girl (2002)
Black Coat: Tales from Another Reality (2002)
Incident in Sokolniki: Stories from Another Reality (2002)
...like a flower at dawn (2002)
Testament of an Old Monk: Tales from Another Reality (2003)
Fountain House (2003)
Innocent Eyes (2003)
Unripe gooseberries (2003)
Sweet Lady (2003)
Ninth volume (2003)
Wild animal stories. Sea slop stories. Puski Byatye (2003)
Park Goddess (2004)
Changed Time (2005)
City of Light: Magic stories (2005)
