Anna Starobinets in conversation with Jesús Ortega, FLG 2024
Tuesday 23 April, 19:30 / Pabellón Fundación Caja Rural Granada / Conversation with Anna STAROBINETS / Moderator: Jesús Ortega / Consecutive translation service / Free entrance until full capacity / Activity organised by Granada Ciudad de Literatura Unesco and Centro de Culturas Eslavas de la Universidad de Granada in collaboration with Feria del Libro de Granada.
Anna Starobinets
Anna Starobinets (Moscow, 1978) is a journalist, a writer of dystopian and metaphysical works, as well as a film and television scriptwriter. At the age of twenty-seven, she published her first book, An Awkward Age (2005), followed by, among others, The Living (2011), winner of the Utopiales European Prize in 2016, The Icarus Gland (2013), Russia’s National Bestseller Prize, and Look at him (2017), a heartbreaking autobiographical account of her pregnancy with a stillborn baby. Starobinets received the Nocte Prize in 2012 and the European Science Fiction Society Prize in 2018, and is considered the “queen of Russian horror”. She has been living in Tbilisi, Georgia, since spring 2022.
