Yana Yulievna Zavatskaya (Russian: Яна Юльевна Завацкая;[1] born 11 March 1970 in Leningrad)[2] is a Soviet Russian prose writer and translator.[3][4] Laureate of the 2019 "Running on Waves" Prize.[2] Yana Zavatskaya is a social fiction writer. She also is a blogger (at LiveJournal, listed in the Top 100 bloggers).[5] She writes for the Pravda.ru.[6]

Yana Zavatskaya
BornMarch 11, 1970 Edit this on Wikidata
Saint Petersburg Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationWriter, science fiction author, prose writer, translator, poet, blogger, opinion writer Edit this on Wikidata
Political partyThe Left, Communist Party of Germany (1990) Edit this on Wikidata

Her father was a mathematics teacher and poet.[6] She grew up in Chelyabinsk.[2] She completed four years of medical school.[6]

In 1993, she moved with her family to Germany.[2][3] In Germany, she works in a nursing home for elderly.[2][3]

She is Catholic,[2][3] and a was member of the German Communist Party.[2] She left the party in 2023.[7]

She has two children.[2][6]

She was criticized by Alexander Tarasov.[8]

Publications edit

Zavatskaya is the author of five books. Her first book was published by Eksmo.[9][10][11] Her first novel is written in the genre of dystopia.[12]

Year Title
2006 Ликей
2006 Нить надежды
2006 Эмигрант с Анзоры
2019 Холодная зона
2020 Рассвет 2.0

References edit

  1. ^ "РНБ: формат авторитетной записи".
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Д-р наук А. В. Митрофанова. Теология освобождения в современной русскоязычной фантастике // Век глобализации №2, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "Курская областная научная библиотека им. Н. Н. Асеева". kurskonb.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  4. ^ "Info" (PDF). dspace.bsu.edu.ru. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  5. ^ "Труд и только труд: как достигается высокое качество жизни в Германии". newizv.ru.
  6. ^ a b c d https://www.pravda.ru/author/zavackaja_jana/
  7. ^ https://blau-kraehe.livejournal.com/1055827.html
  8. ^ "Самодеятельность". saint-juste.narod.ru.
  9. ^ https://www.km.ru/glavnoe/2006/08/30/eksklyuziv/covmestnyi-proekt-izdatelstv-lepta-eksmo-i-yauza
  10. ^ https://fantlab.ru/edition37076
  11. ^ https://foma.ru/yana-zavaczkaya-likej.html
  12. ^ https://bibliotemryuk.ru/netcat_files/userfiles/2/Dushu_istselit.doc

Sources edit

  • Mitrofanova, A. V. "Religio-Political Utopia by Iana Zavatskaia". In: The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia: Language, Fiction and Fantasy in Modern Russia. Ed.by Mikhail Suslov and Per-Arne Bodin. London: I. B. Tauris, 2020. pp. 155—174.