Anya Ulinich

Anya Ulinich (born 1973 in Moscow ) is a Russian-born, American painter and writer.

In 1990, she came up with 17 years as immigrant with her parents in the U.S. and now lives in New York. At the University of California, she took a degree in painting.

Ulinich has been writing since 2000, her first, published in 2007 novel Petropolis was praised by critics and received the " 5 under 35 " award for writers under 35 years of National Book Foundation, which also awards the better known National Book Award. Petropolis tells the odyssey of a young woman in the fictional Soviet-style city Asbest2 grows up ( an allusion to the real Russian city asbestos ) and runs over Arizona and Chicago to New York City, in order to seek her father and a future for themselves. For Petropolis she received the 2008 Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction and was nominated for the Sami pipe Prize of the Jewish Book Council, 2009. 2008, the novel was published in German translation under the title Petropolis. The great journey of the Mail-Order Bride Sasha Goldberg in the translation of Pieke Biermann. The book's title refers to a poem by Osip Mandelstam. They also published several short stories.