Maya Kucherskaya (writer)
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Maya Alexandrovna Kucherskaya | |
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 Kucherskaya speaking at the "Red Square" literary festival, Moscow 2018 | |
| Born | May 2, 1970 Moscow, USSR |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship | USSR, Russia |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University (1997), UCLA (1999) |
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Maya Alexandrovna Kucherskaya (Russian: Ма́йя Алекса́ндровна Куче́рская; born May 2, 1970 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian fiction writer, columnist, critic and pedagogue.[1]
She has earned degrees in Philology and Russian Literature (Moscow State University, 1997), as well as a PhD in Slavic Languages&Literatures (UCLA, 1999). She is a professor of Philology and head of the School of Literary Excellence at the National Research University, as well as the recipient of multiple awards, such as the "Big Book Award" (2013, 2021), the Bunin Prize (2007), and Booker Award (2007). She has earned the title of "Best Teacher" multiple times at HSE.[2]
Her academic interests include Russian history and popular culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, contemporary literature, and the mythology of mass consciousness.
Biography[edit]
Dr. Kucherskaya was born in the USSR in 1970. She graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1992, going on to defend her 1997 thesis, titled "Russian Yuletide Story and the Problem of the Canon in Modern Literature", earning a degree in Russian Literature. From 1992 to 1995, she studied in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in UCLA, and in 1999, she defended her dissertation, titled "Grand Duke Constantine Romanov in Russian Cultural Mythology".[3]
From 2005 to 2015 she was a columnist for the newspaper "Vedomosti (Ведомости)."[4]
In 2011, she became an associate professor in the School of Philological Studies at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, where she also supervises the creative writing program. She is currently tenured at HSE, where her supervisor is professor Kostinantin Polivanov.
Work[edit]
In 2005, she published a bestseller, Modern Patericon, and in 2007, her reworking of her doctoral thesis, re-titled "The Rain God", won her the Booker Award.
In 2014, she published a collection of short stories titled "Lamentations for the Departed Art Teacher". In an interview with Gazeta, she said about the series, “it turned out to be a strange family, as if all these texts were from the same mother, but from different fathers. An absurdist father, an avant-garde father, a harsh realist father, a faceless father who ran away after the first date, and the child turned out to be raised by a single mother."[5]
Also in 2014, she took part in a recording of theatrical readings of "Karinena". She published a biography of Nikolai Leskov in 2021.
Bibliography[edit]
- Kucherskaya, M.A. Modern Patericon: Readings for the Despondent (2005)[6]
- Kucherskaya, M.A. The Rain God ("Бог дождя"), 2007.
- Kucherskaya, M.A. Leskov, a Missed Genius. "Молодая гвардия", 2021.
References[edit]
- ↑ "AUT - Úplné zobrazení záznamu". aleph.nkp.cz. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ "Maya A. Kucherskaya". www.hse.ru. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ "Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich Romanov in Russian cultural mythology - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ "Майя Кучерская". Ведомости (in русский). Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ "«Это не про православие, это про нас»". Газета.Ru (in русский). Retrieved 2022-11-20.
- ↑ "Современный патерик. Чтение для впавших в уныние (М. А. Кучерская) | МногоСлов.рф". mnogoslovs.ru. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
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