(1938)

Leading contemporary Russian novelist, playwright, screenwriter and poet. She studied journalism at Moscow State University. She worked as a journalist on television and in various newspapers and magazines. She writes prose and drama since the early 70s. For its roughness and skepticism, her plays are first performed in proffessional theatres only since the early 80s. She made the breakthourgh with her play Three girls in blue and Kolombina´s flat and in early 90s she belonged to the most demanded Russian playwrights. As a novelist, her debut came only in 1988 with a collection of short stories called Immortal love: Stories and in early 90th she published her well-known cycle of stories Songs of the Eastern Slavs and a novella to The Time Night. She is also the author of successful film scripts and scenarios for animated fairy tales. In the past decade, she writes mostly mystical short stories and fairy tales for children and adults. In 2003, she released a CD with an avant-garde free-jazz-rock group Inquisitorum, on which she which sang her lyrics.