Maria Stepanova

Books on prize lists

• Памяти памяти

  In English

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  International Booker 2021 · Shortlist

  In Memory of Memory

  Памяти памяти · Pamyati pamyati

  Maria Stepanova · 45 when first published

  Novel · 400 pages · Family, Autofiction

  Translated by Sasha Dugdale

  AIAI-generated summary:Setting out to write the story of her own family, a writer works through its archive of papers and objects and is soon asking whether the past can be kept in memory at all.

  Also: Warwick Prize 2021 shortlist

• War of the Beasts and the Animals

  In English

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  Warwick Prize 2021 · Shortlist

  War of the Beasts and the Animals

  War of the Beasts and the Animals

  Maria Stepanova · 49 when first published

  Poetry · 123 pages · War

  Translated by Sasha Dugdale

  AIAI-generated summary:Long poems about war and remembrance, two prompted by the fighting in eastern Ukraine and a third written for the hundredth anniversary of the First World War, alongside cycles of eerie ballads and reworked songs.