Ljudmila Ulicka was born in 1943 in Bashkiria during evacuation, and she grew up in Moscow, where after finishing her studies she worked in genetic laboratory. She was fired for typing samizdata, after which works in the theater and writes cartoons and texts for children. He starts publishing stories at the end of the eighties in magazines and devotes himself completely to writing prose. For novels and collections of stories, translated into more than twenty languages, won many awards, she is the first woman to receive the Russian Booker Award (2001), and the most important Her works are Sonječka and other stories , Medea and her children , Happy funeral , Slucaj Kukocki , Daniel Stein, translator , Sincerely yours, Shurik , Green tent ...