Author Maria Stepanova and translator Sasha Dugdale speak about the 2021 International Booker Prize-longlisted In Memory of Memory
Maria Stepanova
Maria Stepanova is a poet, essayist, journalist and the author of 10 poetry collections and three books of essays
She has received several Russian and international literary awards. In Memory of Memory won Russia’s Bolshaya Kniga Award in 2018. Her collection of poems, War of the Beasts and the Animals is published by Bloodaxe in Sasha Dugdale’s translation in 2021, and is a Poetry Book Society Translation Choice.
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Maria Stepanova’s unique portrait of a family is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice