Daniel Stein, Interpreter

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LUDMILA ULITSKAYA was born in western Russia and worked as a scientist before becoming Repertory Director of the Hebrew Theater of Moscow. She is hailed as Russia’s bestselling literary novelist and has written fourteen novels, three tales for children, and six plays. Daniel Stein, Interpreter won the Russian National Literary Prize and previous novels have received the Russian Booker Prize, the Penne Literary Prize, and the Medici Award. Ludmila Ulitskaya has just been awarded the 2011 Simone de Beauvoir Prize, an international human rights prize for women’s freedom.