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Anna Alfredovna Starobinets (Russian:Анна Старобинец, born 1978) is a Russian writer and scriptwriter who has been called the "Russian Queen of Horror".[1] She has published novels, short stories and children's books, and describes herself as writing "horror and supernatural fiction for adults, and also fairy and detective stories for children".[2]

Personal life

Starobinets was born in Moscow in 1978.[3] Her husband, writer Alexander Garros [ru], died in 2017, after which she had "writer's block" for 18 months. She has two children, and a poodle.[1]

She has said that her favourite book is Neil Gaiman's American Gods.[4]

Writing

Starobinets' first published work, the short story collection An Awkward Age (2010), was a finalist in the Russian National Bestseller Prize. It comprises "chilling short stories set in the streets of Moscow and various creepy parallel worlds", and has been translated into seven languages.[1][3] It has been described as "one of the most stunning debuts to come out of Russia since Victor Pelevin: hip, funny, angry, and dark as hell"[4] and as "an insightful take on the contemporary condition of man—in Russia and further afield".[5]

Catlantis (2015) was her first children's book to be translated into English, and was listed in The Telegraph's 2015 "Best Christmas books for children"[6] and described by The Guardian as "a madcap and highly original adventure".[7] It was translated by Jane Bugaeva, who also translated In the Wolf's Lair.[8]

Starobinets describes Look At Him (2017) as an "autobiographical non-fiction novel about the loss of an unborn baby in Russia".[9] She has written a four-book children's series The Beastly Crimes books, which have been published in English as In the Wolf's Lair (2018), A Predator's Rights (2019), Claws of Rage (2019) and The Plucker (2019).

Selected publications (translated into English)

• Starobinets, Anna (2019). The Plucker. Translated by Bugaeva, Jane. Dover. ISBN 978-1782690887.
• Starobinets, Anna (2019). Claws of Rage. Translated by Bugaeva, Jane. Dover. ISBN 978-0486829524.
• Starobinets, Anna (2019). A Predator's Rights. Translated by Bugaeva, Jane. Dover. ISBN 978-0486829517.
• Starobinets, Anna (2018). In the Wolf's Lair. Translated by Bugaeva, Jane. Dover. ISBN 978-0486827629.
• Starobinets, Anna (2015). Catlantis. Translated by Bugaeva, Jane. Pushkin Children's Books. ISBN 978-1782690887.
• Starobinets, Anna (2015). The Living. Translated by Rann, James. Hesperus Press. ISBN 978-1843913771.
• Starobinets, Anna (2015). The Icarus Gland: and other stories of metamorphosis. Translated by Rann, James. Skyscraper publications. ISBN 978-1843913771.
• Starobinets, Anna (2010). An Awkward Age. Translated by Aplin, Hugh. Hesperus Press. ISBN 978-1843917144.

References

External links

• Official website
• Anna Starobinets at IMDb
• Full text of story "I'm Waiting" from An Awkward Age with interview

На других языках

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- [en] Anna Starobinets

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[ru] Старобинец, Анна Альфредовна

А́нна Альфре́довна Староби́нец (род. 25 октября 1978[1][2][1], Москва) — российская журналистка и писательница, сценарист. Автор книг «Переходный возраст», «Убежище 3/9» и «Резкое похолодание». Одна из немногих русскоязычных авторов, постоянно работающих в жанре ужасов[3]. Произведения Старобинец переведены на английский, французский и испанский языки[4]. Работы автора неоднократно попадали в списки номинантов на международные литературные премии в области фантастики[5].

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