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Marina Lvovna Stepnova (née Rovner; born 2 September 1971, in Yefremov) is a Russian writer and poet, best known for her books Women of Lazarus (2011), which won the Big Book Award, and was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize and the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award in 2012, and The Garden (2020), which won the Yasnaya Polyana ...
Marina Stepnova. Born: 1971. Quick Study: Marina Stepnova is a fiction writer, screenwriter, and literary translator. The Stepnova File: Marina Stepnova studied translation at the Literary Institute. She has been publishing fiction—short stories—in prestigious “thick” literary journals since 2003.
Sep 2, 1971 · Her novel "The Surgeon" won the nomination for the National Bestseller Prize. Marina Stepnova (Марина Степнова) now lives in Moscow but was raised in Kishinev. She graduated from The Gorky Literary Institute and did postgraduate studies at the Institute of World Literature.
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Jan 1, 2011 · Marina Stepnova, Марина Степнова. 4.34. 3,258 ratings272 reviews. «Женщины Лазаря» — необычная семейная сага от начала века до наших дней. Это роман о большой любви и большой нелюбви. Лазарь Линдт, гениальный ученый и большой ребенок, «беззаконная комета в кругу расчисленных светил», — центр инфернальных личных историй трех незаурядных женщин.
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Stepnova’s first novel, Surgeon (2005), wove together a contemporary plastic surgeon and an 11th-century Persian assassin. She describes it as “a very dark novel about talent and free will.” Stepnova drew on her own medical experience while writing it; growing up in a family of doctors, she worked as a cancer nurse when she was just 15 and told RBT...
Objects in The Women of Lazarusare often animated, enacting her characters’ emotional journeys. One scene, in which the death of a girl’s innocence is seen through the eyes of her teddy bear, is simultaneously contrived and compelling. Stepnova’s playful, brutal imagery, continually re-framing our perspectives, contributes to the sense of how human...
According to Hayden, translating the opening of The Womenof Lazarus was “especially difficult because it begins with an idiom and moves on to very specific cultural references, highly colloquial speech, and a wandering consciousness.”Stepnova’s use of language is inventive, dynamic and allusive. From Nabokov to the Song of Solomon, the novel is enr...
Marina Stepnova has 13 books on Goodreads with 11852 ratings. Marina Stepnova’s most popular book is Женщины Лазаря.
Apr 23, 2020 · Marina Stepnova – Writer (s) – Asymptote Blog. Posts featuring Marina Stepnova. Intimate Work: Lisa C. Hayden on Translating Narine Abgaryan. April 23, 2020 | in Book Club, Interviews | by Josefina Massot. Translation is a very intimate line of work and translating an author’s text tells you a lot about them as people.
