Maria Rybakova
Maria Aleksandrovna Rybakova is a Russian writer whose works have been published in multiple languages.Life
Rybakova is the only daughter of literary critic Natalia Ivanova, deputy editor of the magazine Znamya, and a granddaughter of the writer Anatoly Rybakov.
She studied Classics starting at the age of 17, when she entered Moscow University, and moved to Germany when she was 20 to continue her studies at the Humboldt University, ultimately receiving a PhD degree in Classics from Yale University in 2004. Over the years she worked and travelled in a number of places, including Geneva, Munich, the Mekong River region in Thailand, and Northeast China.
She was awarded the Sergei Dovlatov Award in 2003 for the best Russian language short story. In 2005, Rybakova was a writer-in-residence at Bard College, and in 2006–2007 she taught at California State University, Long Beach. In autumn 2007 she joined the Classics and Humanities faculty of San Diego State University.Major works
- Анна Гром и ее призрак, Глагол, 1999.
- Тайна: Повести и роман, Екатеринбург: У-Фактория, 2001
- "The Child-snatching Demons of Antiquity: Narrative Traditions, Psychology and Nachleben", Ph.D. thesis, Yale University, 2004.
- Братство проигравших, Время, 2005.
- Слепая речь, Время, 2006.
- Острый нож для мягкого сердца, Время, 2009.
- Гнедич, Время, 2011.
- Черновик человека, Эксмо, 2014.
- Если есть рай, Знамя, 2018.
