°1981 in Perm (Russia), lived in Yaroslavl as a writer and dramaturge. Her poetry won awards in Russia and in her debut novel Endstation Rußland she created a dazzling portrait of Russian life in all its contradictions and facets. Almost 15 years later, in her diary From the End of the World, she describes the Russian present after the invasion of Ukraine. She is now in Germany.

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