Yana Zavatskaya
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- "Running on Waves" Prize (2019)
Yana Zavatskaya | |
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| Born | March 11, 1970 |
| Occupation | Writer, science fiction writer, prose writer, translator, poet, blogger, opinion writer |
| Political party | Die Linke, Communist Party of Germany (1990) |
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| Website | blau_kraehe |
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]
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 is now a member of the DKP.[8]
She has two children.[2][6] Her great-grandfather died of starvation during the Siege of Leningrad.[9]
She was criticized by Alexander Tarasov.[10] She praised Kling's book QualityLand.
