Zuleikha

About the Author and Translator

Guzel Yakhina is a Russian author and filmmaker of Tatar origins. She graduated from the Kazan State Pedagogical University and completed her PhD at the Moscow Filmmaking School. Zuleikha is her first novel. In addition to the Big Book Award and the Yasnaya Polyana Award, Zuleikha also won the Prose of the Year Prize, the Ticket to the Stars Award and was a finalist for the Russian Booker Prize.

Lisa C. Hayden’s translations from the Russian include Eugene Vodolazkin’s Laurus, which won the Read Russia Award in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. Her blog, Lizok’s Bookshelf, examines contemporary Russian fiction. She lives in Maine, USA.