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Svetlana Vasilenko was born in 1956 in Kapustin Yar, a soviet space center. In 1977 she moved to Moscow to study at the Gorky Institute. In 1982 "Za saigakami" was voted the best the best novella of the year. A number of screen plays are written together with A. Konchalovsky. Svetlana Vasilenko is a member of the Russian Society of Authors and the Russina "Pen". She has been awarded scholarships twice in the U.S.A. She currently lives in Moscow.
Sergei Eisenstein Prize (Dtl.) for screenplays 1994
Nabokov-Prize 1999
Novy-Mir-Prize fort he best novel of 1998
shortlist "Booker Prize 1998"
Foreign rights: Germany (DVA), Germany (Suhrkamp), USA (NW-University Press), Poland (Czarne), France (Noir sur Blanc)
