Olga Larionova (born 1935) is the pen name of Olga Nikolayevna Tideman, a Russian science fiction author who began in the Soviet era.[1] Her debut novel was A Leopard from the top of Kilimanjaro ("Леопард с вершины Килиманджаро") from 1965.[2] Her story A Tale of Kings was in the anthology Earth and Elsewhere, which gained her notice in the West.[3] She is one of the few successful female Russian science fiction writers of her generation.[4] She won the Aelita Prize in 1987 and remains one of the few women to win it as an individual writer.[5]
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Born | 16 March 1935 ![]() Saint Petersburg ![]() |
Occupation | Author, writer, science fiction writer ![]() |
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