Yelena Chizhova
Also recorded as Yelena Semyonovna Chizhova · Elena Semenovna Chizhova
Yelena Chizhova
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- Full name
- Елена Семёновна Чижова.
- Born
- 1957. · Saint Petersburg.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and Russia.
- Occupation
- translator, writer, economist and novelist.
- Honours
- Russian Booker Prize.
- Languages
- Russian.
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Yelena Chizhova appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a writer (born 4 May 1957).
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The birth of Yelena Chizhova is recorded on 4 May 1957 in Saint Petersburg.
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- 1.Elena Chizhova. Los Angeles Review of Books.
- 2.Elena Chizhova. Read Russia.
- 3.Lunde, Ingunn. Jelena Tsjizjova. Store norske leksikon. 2020-05-12.
- 4.Nemtsova, Anna. As Russia Celebrates Hitler's Defeat, Stalin's Ghost Is Haunting Putin. The Daily Beast. 2019-05-09.
- 5.Peshkova, Maya. Время женщин. Эхо Москвы. 2012-02-05.
- 6.Bessonov, B. L. Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. 1994. 978-0-313-26265-4.
- 7.Kelly, Catriona. An Anthology of Russian Women's Writing, 1777-1992. Oxford University Press. 1994. 978-0-19-871504-7.
- 8.Barry, Ellen. A Writer Invites Russia to Engage Its Painful Past. The New York Times. 2010-03-06. 0362-4331.
- 9.Furman, Yelena. Torn Like a Veil Before Me: On Elena Chizhova's "Little Zinnobers". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2019-06-08.
- 10.Bishop, Tom. The Shakespearean International Yearbook 18: Special Section: Soviet Shakespeare. Routledge. 2020-06-15. 978-1-000-07452-9.
- 11.Furman, Yelena. Soviet Scars: Elena Chizhova's "The Time of Women". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2012-05-20.
- 12.Sorvari, Marja. Narrating Childhood in Elena Chizhova's Vremya zhenshchin. Slavonica. 21. 1–2. 49–62. 2016-07-03. 1361-7427.
- 13.Taplin, Phoebe. A Soviet Becky Sharp: On Margarita Khemlin's "Klotsvog". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2019-09-06.
- 14.Freedman, John. Booker Prize-Winning Novel Comes to the Stage. The Moscow Times. 2011-07-27.
- 15.Elena Chizhova. The Modern Novel.
- 16.Елена Чижова: «Повелитель вещей». Отрывок из нового романа. Snob.ru. 2022-03-04.
- 17.St. Petersburg PEN: "This City is Ours!". PEN America. 2017-11-17.
- 18.Kolesnikov, Andrei. Facing a dim present, Putin turns back to glorious Stalin. Washington Post. 2020-05-08. 0190-8286.
- 19.СТЕШИН, Дмитрий. Писательница Елена Чижова: «Блокадный Ленинград уморил Сталин». Komsomolskaya Pravda. 2019-05-07.
- 20.Baryshnikov, V. N. Scandinavistics by the Prominent Russian Historian Professor Vozgrin. Вестник Санкт-Петербургского Университета. История. 65. 3. 990–1005. 2020. 1812-9323.
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