Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Born: February 21, 1943 (age 81)
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)