Olga Larionova

Olga Larionova (born 1935) is the working-name of Olga Nikolayevna Tideman, a Russian science fiction author who began in the Soviet era.[1] Her debut story was "Leopard sa Kilimandžara" from 1965.[2] Her story A Tale of Kings was in the anthology Earth and Elsewhere, which gained her notice in the West.[3] She is one of the few successful female Russian science fiction writers of her generation.[4] She won the Aelita Prize in 1987 and remains one of the few women to win it as an individual writer.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Translated SF
  2. ↑ The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, pg 1039
  3. ↑ "Soviet Science Fiction" by Jonathan Susskind in The Orlando Sentinel of May 4, 1986
  4. ↑ Passion and Perception: Essays on Russian Culture by Richard Stites, pg 246
  5. ↑ Russian SF/F site

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