Olga Larionova

Olga Larionova (born 1935) is the pen name of Olga Nikolayevna Tideman, a Russian science fiction author who began in the Soviet era.[1] Her debut novel was A Leopard from the top of Kilimanjaro ("Леопард с вершины Килиманджаро") 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]

Olga Larionova
Born16 March 1935  (age 85)
Saint Petersburg 
OccupationAuthor, writer, science fiction writer 
Awards
  • Aelita Prize (1987)
  • Bronze snail award (1992)
  • Bronze snail award (1997)
  • Wanderer literary award (2001) 

References

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