Quote of the day
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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)