Olga Grushin is the author of “The
Dream Life of Sukhanov”. She was born in Moscow in 1971. Olga’s father,
Professor Boris
Grushin, is a leading Russian sociologist, who specialises in public
opinion polling. This did not make him popular with the authorities in the
Soviet era, so in 1976 he accepted a job as a journalist for a liberal paper in
Prague. So, Czechoslovakia was where Olga Grushin first went to school as a
child. She started writing from the age of 4. Olga was the first Soviet citizen
to ever enrol for a full time degree programme at an American University (Emory
University in 1989), while keeping her full Soviet citizenship. Olga Grushin
also previously studied journalism at Moscow State University and art history
at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Quite a few of Olga’s relatives have worked
in journalism at some point in their lives: her grandmother, mother, brother,
and sister-in-law. Her short stories have been published in “Partisan Review”,
“The Massachusetts Review”, “Confrontation”, and “Art Times”. Nabokov is her
favourite writer. Olga has had many jobs: she has previously worked as an
interpreter for former President Jimmy Carter, as a translator at the World
Bank, as a cocktail waitress in a jazz bar, and as an editor for Harvard
University’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. She was
shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize for New Writers. Olga Grushin lives in
Washington DC, and is currently at work on her 2nd novel.
The Last
Offering – a short story by Olga Grushin
Libraryjournal.com
– Barbara Hoffert’s interview with Olga Grushin
Chekhov
the list – Anne Marson’s interview
The End of the
Underground – Regis Behe’s interview
Emory Week in Review Podcast – an
audio interview with Olga Grushin
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