Jacob's Ladder

A Note About the Author

Ludmila Ulitskaya is one of Russia’s most popular and renowned literary figures. A former scientist and the director of Moscow’s Hebrew Repertory Theater, she is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, including The Big Green Tent; several tales for children; and plays that have been staged by a number of theaters in Russia and Germany. She has won the Russian Booker Prize and twice won Russia’s Big Book Prize, and has been nominated for the Man Booker International Prize. You can sign up for email updates here.

A Note About the Translator

Polly Gannon is the director of cultural studies at the New York–St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture. She holds a Ph.D. in Russian literature from Cornell University. She lives, teaches, and translates in St. Petersburg, Russia. You can sign up for email updates here.