Olga SlavnikovaOlga Slavnikova was born onOctober 23, 1957, in Sverdlovsk, to a family of engineers. She holds a degree in journalism from UralsState University. She has been a memberof the Union of Russian Writers since 1997.

Slavnikova, a novelist nd critic, has been publishingprose since 1988. Her first novel, A Dragon-fly Enlarged to the Size of aDog, was on the short list for the Booker Prize (1997) and for theAnti-Booker (1999) and received the P. Bazhov Prize Alone in the Mirror, her second novel, was short-listed for the Anti-Booker and received the Pavel Bazhov Prize. TheMan Who Couldn't Die, her third novel, won the Apollon Grigoriev Prize and wasshort-listed for both the Belkin Prize and the National Bestseller Prize. Sheis the author of many articles on contemporary literature in all the main"thick journals" and was awarded the Polonsky Prize for her criticism. Since2001, she has been the coordinator for the Debut prize for young writers.�r;_ Read More Read Less