Nella Bielski (1930s – 4 November 2020) was a Ukrainian-born French writer and actress. Bielski was born in

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in the

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in the 1930s and died on 4 November 2020 in Antony a suburb of Paris. She studied

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. In the early 1960s she met a French journalist, married him and was allowed to leave the Soviet Union for France. Bielski acted in films. In 1970 her first novel ''Voronej'' appeared in French. After that she wrote a number of novels, also translated into English, including ''Oranges for the Son of Alexander Levy'' and ''The Year is '42''. She collaborated on a number of plays with one of her regular English translators

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, including ''A Question of Geography'', which was performed by the

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External links

Nella Bielski on Babelio
* 1930s births 2020 deaths French women novelists French film actresses French people of Ukrainian descent Moscow State University alumni Soviet emigrants to France 20th-century French actresses 20th-century French non-fiction writers 21st-century French non-fiction writers 20th-century French women writers 21st-century French women writers Ukrainian women writers {{France-film-actor-1930s-stub