Yana Zavatskaya

Yana Yulievna Zavatskaya (Russian: Яна Юльевна Завацкая;[1] born 11 March 1970 in Leningrad)[2] is a Soviet Russian prose writer and translator.[3][4] Laureate of the 2019 "Running on Waves" Prize.[2] Yana Zavatskaya is a social fiction writer. She also is a blogger (at LiveJournal, listed in the Top 100 bloggers).[5] She writes for the Pravda.ru.[6]

Yana Zavatskaya
BornMarch 11, 1970 
Saint Petersburg 
OccupationWriter, science fiction author, prose writer, translator, poet, blogger, opinion writer 
Political partyThe Left, Communist Party of Germany (1990) 

Her father was a mathematics teacher and poet.[6] She grew up in Chelyabinsk.[2] She completed four years of medical school.[6]

In 1993, she moved with her family to Germany.[2][3] In Germany, she works in a nursing home for elderly.[2][3]

She is Catholic,[2][3] and a was member of the German Communist Party.[2] She left the party in 2023.[7]

She has two children.[2][6]

She was criticized by Alexander Tarasov.[8]

Publications

Zavatskaya is the author of five books. Her first book was published by Eksmo.[9][10][11] Her first novel is written in the genre of dystopia.[12]

Year Title
2006 Ликей
2006 Нить надежды
2006 Эмигрант с Анзоры
2019 Холодная зона
2020 Рассвет 2.0

References

Sources

  • Mitrofanova, A. V. "Religio-Political Utopia by Iana Zavatskaia". In: The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia: Language, Fiction and Fantasy in Modern Russia. Ed.by Mikhail Suslov and Per-Arne Bodin. London: I. B. Tauris, 2020. pp. 155—174.
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