Polina Barskova, born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in 1976, is one of the most celebrated contemporary Russian writers. She currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to her extensive poetic oeuvre, she is a literary scholar and editor dedicated to the poets of the Leningrad blockade. Living Pictures is her first volume of prose.
Growing up in Leningrad, Polina Barskova saw no trace of the estimated million people who died in the city during the Nazi blockade of 1941-44. As one of Russia's most admired and controversial contemporary writers, she has repeatedly returned to the archive of texts still being...
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