Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Born: February 21, 1943 (age 82)
Bio: Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya is an internationally acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer who, in 2014, was awarded the prestigious Austrian State Prize for European Literature for her oeuvre.
Known for:
- The Big Green Tent: A Novel (2015)
- Sonechka (1998)
- The Funeral Party (1999)
- Medea and Her Children (2002)
- Daniel Stein, Interpreter (2011)