Oksana Vasyakina is a poet, activist and novelist. She was born in 1989 to a working-class family in the Siberian city of Ust-Ilimsk, Russia. In 2019 she was awarded the Lyceum Prize for her poetry, which appears in English translation in n+1, in the collection This Is Us Losing Count and in PEN America's Verses on the Vanguard: Russian Poetry Today. Her autofictional debut novel, Wound, won the prestigious NOS literary prize in 2021, and was additionally chosen as the Critics' Academy Choice.
Un premier récit intime et engagé, couronné du prestigieux prix NOS en Russie, récompensant les nouvelles voix de la littérature russe." Le texte le plus audacieux sur la mort et la sexualité dans la littérature russe de ces dernières années. " Nina Aguicheva, Snob
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