Anya Ulinich (born 1973) is a contemporary
Russian American
Russian Americans are Americans of full or partial Russian ancestry. The term can apply to recent Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to those that settled in the 19th-century Russian possessions in what is now Alaska. Russi ...
writer and visual artist. She is the author of ''Petropolis'' (Viking, 2007), and ''Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel,'' a graphic novel (Penguin, 2014).
''Petropolis'', a Sami Rohr Prize Finalist,
presents the American dream as no longer a matter of material success, or even educational opportunities but of “finding a place for one's misfit heart”.
''Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel'' has been described as "a late-life bildungsroman that somehow combines a great Russian heaviness of spirit with invigorating humour, moving effortlessly from Chekhov to OkCupid clichés."
Ayelet Waldman's review in the New York Times describes hers as a "rare, indeed magical, talent.”
Awards
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National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35
The National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 prize, established in 2006, is an annual honor presented by the National Book Foundation to five authors under the age of 35 who released their debut novel in the previous five years. Honorees are nomina ...
honoree (2007)
Selected works
* ''Petropolis'' (Viking, 2007)
* ''Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel'' (Penguin, 2014)
References
External links
Anya Ulinich , Penguin Random House *
ttps://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-anya-ulinich-20140720-story.html ''Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel'' in the Los Angeles TimesKatie Roiphe on ''Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel''Kevin Kinsella interviews Anya Ulinich about 'Petropolis'
1973 births
Living people
American graphic novelists
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
Artists from Moscow
21st-century American women writers
Russian emigrants to the United States
Writers from Moscow
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