Creativity and biography of Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Lyudmila Ulitskaya is one of the most widely read contemporary Russian authors. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. The writer is a laureate of the Russian Booker and the Big Book awards. The creative path and biography of Lyudmila Ulitskaya is the subject of today's narrative.

early years

Biography of Ludmila Ulitskaya began in 1943, in Davlekanovo. In this small Bashkir town the parents of the future writer were evacuated from Moscow. The family returned to the capital in 1945. Lyudmila Ulitskaya's father was a doctor of technical sciences, the author of a number of works devoted to agriculture and mechanics. The writer's mother worked for many years at the Research Institute of Pediatrics of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.

Biography of Lyudmila Ulitskaya, of course, left a mark on her work. An important role was played by children's impressions. In 2013, a collection of short stories "Childhood 45-53. And tomorrow will be happiness. " The writer dedicated this book to the children of war, those who found the forties - an amazing period in the history of the country, characterized by a strange combination of poverty and unshakable faith in tomorrow.

Heroes of stories "And tomorrow there will be happiness" - optimists, idealists, who for a long time, according to the author, do not exist. And when creating these works, as Ulitskaya herself admits, she indulged in nostalgia for days gone by, for her childhood and adolescence, which for almost every person seems fabulous in the course of the years.

Student years

The graduating school future writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya decided to follow in the footsteps of her mother and entered the Faculty of Biology at Moscow State University. Student years, strangely enough, have generated in the heroine of this article the qualities necessary to any prose writer. She learned to meditate, to observe. And one of the teachers - Vladimir Efroimson (Department of Genetics) - became for her an example of parity, diligence, impeccable morality.

Biography of Lyudmila Ulitskaya includes a period of work at the Institute of General Genetics. But for a long time the graduate of the biofaca did not hold out. Two years later she wrote a letter of resignation. The reason for the dismissal was a reprint of samizdat, for which many representatives of the Soviet intelligentsia were punished in the sixties. For some time Ulitskaya did not work. She did not manage to return to scientific work.

The beginning of the creative path

After the dismissal from the Institute, Lyudmila Ulitskaya never again worked in state institutions. After a long search for work, she managed to triple as an artist to the Jewish music theater. Her duties included writing dramatizations. During the time at the theater, Ulitskaya created more than a dozen plays, essays, and also engaged in artistic translation. Years of work in the Jewish theater can be considered the beginning of the writer's work. Lyudmila Ulitskaya, however, began publishing her books much later.

The first work was published in 1993. It was a collection of "Poor Relatives." The next book by Ulitskaya was highly appreciated by critics.

Confession

The novel "Medea and her children" has caused a lot of positive reviews both in Russia and abroad. With the creativity of Ulitskaya, the reading part of the country was well known in the eighties, when her stories periodically appeared in literary magazines. At the beginning of the 90's, her films were made with feature films. Thus, the name of Ulitskaya becomes known among those who prefer viewing films to reading prose works.

In 1990, Vladimir Grammatikov produced the film "Liberty Sisters". Over the years, Anatoly Mateshko created the film "Woman for All". Approximately at this time, the novel "Sonechka" appeared in the "New World", later translated into all European languages and highly appreciated by Western critics. In 1999, the premiere of the film "To Die Easy" was held under the script of Lyudmila Ulitskaya, and two years later the light was perhaps the most famous novel by a Russian writer.

"The Case of Kukotsky"

For this novel Ulitskaya Lyudmila Evgenevna was awarded the "Russian Booker" prize. The book tells about the talented doctor-gynecologist Pavle Kukotsky and his family. The novel also touches upon some important events from the history of the USSR, for example, the campaign against genetics. The plot of the work of Lyudmila Ulitskaya is rather tragic. The daughter of the protagonist - a man who devoted his life to medicine, dies in the hospital because of not being rendered during medical help. In 2005, Lyudmila Ulitskaya's novel was screened by director Yuri Grymov. In writing the script for the television film, the writer took part.

Other books by Ludmila Ulitskaya

The novel "Daniel Stein, translator" was published in 2006. The work became a bestseller and received the "Big Book" award. The main character of the novel is the Jew Daniel Stein, who became a Catholic priest. The work is characterized by an unusual composition, consists of conversations and letters of heroes. The book caused conflicting reviews. One of the British critics accused the writer of inadequate respect for the victims of the Holocaust.

In 2008, a collection of plays Ulitskaya "Russian jam and other" was published. Three years later, the novel "The Green Tent". Lyudmila Ulitskaya, whose books are seized from the first pages, wrote other works: "Jacob's Ladder", "Holy Garbage", "Gift of the Hands of God", "Funeral Funeral".

Personal life of Lyudmila Ulitskaya

The writer first married in his student years for Yuri Taits. This marriage did not last long. The second husband of the writer was Doctor of Biological Sciences Mikhail Evgeniev. In this marriage two sons - Alexey and Peter - appeared. The first became a businessman. Peter is a jazz musician, but in recent years he has been working as a simultaneous interpreter. Today, the husband of Lyudmila Ulitskaya is Andrey Krasulin, a Russian artist and sculptor.