{{short description|Russian novelist and literary critic (born 1957)}} {{Infobox writer | image =Olga_Slavnikova.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Olga Slavnikova, 2011 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|10|23}} | birth_place = Yekaterinburg, Russia | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = writer, literary critic | nationality = Russian | notableworks = ''2017'' | awards = Russian Booker Prize (2006) }} '''Olga Alexandrovna Slavnikova''' ({{langx|ru|О́льга Алекса́ндровна Сла́вникова}}; born 23 October 1957) is a Russian novelist and literary critic. She was awarded the 2006 Russian Booker Prize for her novel ''2017''.
==Biography== Olga Slavnikova was born and grew up in Yekaterinburg.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.glas.msk.su/glas%2030.html |title=Nine of Russia's Foremost Women Writers |publisher=Glas |accessdate=30 May 2013 |archive-date=22 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200122004944/http://www.glas.msk.su/glas%2030.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at the Ural State University in 1981. Her first works of fiction were published in the late 1980s. She has lived and worked in Moscow since 2001.<ref name="Rossica">{{cite web |url=http://academia-rossica.org/en/literature/russian-writers/slavnikova1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130615215747/http://academia-rossica.org/en/literature/russian-writers/slavnikova1 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=June 15, 2013 |title=Olga Slavnikova |publisher=Academia Rossica |accessdate=30 May 2013}}</ref>
She began publishing novels in the 1990s, several of which won awards, including the Apollon Grigoriev Prize, the Polonsky Prize, and the Bazhov Prize. She was awarded the 2006 Russian Booker Prize for her novel ''2017''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/2006/|title=Archive – 2006|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=Russian|accessdate=30 May 2013|archive-date=18 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618134452/http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/2006/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her latest novel ''Light-headed'' was published in 2010.<ref name="Rossica"/>
She also writes about contemporary literature and serves as director of the Debut Independent Literary Prize, which receives up to 50,000 entries per year.<ref name="Rossica"/> The prize was founded by the private organization ''Pokolenie'' to help young Russian authors get their works published in Russia and in translations worldwide. Olga has been the director of the Debut Prize since 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.themorningnews.org/article/olga-slavnikova |title=Olga Slavnikova |last1=Kiem |first1=Elizabeth |date=25 October 2012 |publisher=The Morning News |accessdate=31 May 2013}}</ref>
==Works== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Title !! Year !! Genre |- | ''The Freshman'' || 1988 || Novel |- | ''A Dragonfly Enlarged to the Size of a Dog'' || 1996 || Novel |- | ''Alone in the Mirror'' || 1999 || Novel |- | ''The Immortal'' || 2001 || Novel |- | ''2017'' || 2006 || Novel |- | ''Love in Carriage Seven'' || 2009 || Novel |- | ''Light-headed'' || 2010 || Novel |}
==English translations== *''2017: A Novel'', Overlook, 2010. {{ISBN|1590203097}}. Translated by Marian Schwartz. * ''Light-headed'', Dedalus, 2015. {{ISBN| 9781910213346}}. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. * ''The man who couldn't die : the tale of an authentic human being'', Columbia University Press, 2019 (The Russian Library). {{ISBN| 9780231185943}}. Translated by Marian Schwartz.
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