Tatyana Tolstaya

Tatiana Nikitichna Tolstaya - writer, TV presenter of the intellectual program "School of Scandal", author of the novel "Kys".

Tatiana was born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) in May 1951. The family of the writer is as colorful and unusual as Tatiana. My mother's grandfather is a well-known literary translator Mikhail Lozinsky, a poet. Paternal grandfather - the famous writer Alexei Tolstoy, who created the unforgettable "Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino" and "The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin." Tolstoy's wife, Tatyana Nikitichna's grandmother, poetess Natalia Krandievskaya.

Tatiana Tolstoy's father also achieved success, who went not in the literary, but in the scientific line and became a professor of physics.

The house where the future writer was born was always noisy and fun. After all, the Tolstoy had 7 sons and daughters. Later, Tatyana's sister Natalya also became a writer and teacher of the Swedish language. Brother Ivan also took a great interest in philology and history of the Cold War period, whose statements can be heard on Radio Liberty. Brother Mikhail devoted himself to natural sciences, who, in addition to physics, later turned his attention to political science.

As a child, Tatiana became interested in reading. After graduating from school, the girl went to enter the Leningrad University, choosing classical philology. Here Tolstaya studied literature and two languages ​​- Latin and Greek.

After graduating from university in 1974, the future writer and TV presenter moved to the capital with her husband, classical philologist Andrei Lebedev.

In the capital, a writer from St. Petersburg gets a job as a proofreader in the editorial office of the Nauka publishing house. Here Tatyana Tolstoy's literary biography began. The debut of the writer is a critical article "With glue and scissors ...", published in the magazine "Voprosy literatury" in 1983.

As Tatyana Nikitichna later shared, a banal circumstance made the girl take up the pen herself, and not just read and review other people's works. After the operation performed on her eyes, Tatyana had to lie for a month with a bandage. From idleness to while away the time, Tatyana Nikitichna began to compose texts. So the first plots of the future works of the writer Tolstoy were born.

Taking off the bandage, Tatiana Tolstaya immediately undertook to transfer her fantasies to paper. This is how the debut story was born, published in the popular Aurora magazine under the title “We sat on the golden porch ...”. The story was immediately recognized as the best literary debut of the 1980s. Inspired by success, Tolstaya writes two dozen more stories that were published from 1984 to 1988 - "A Date with a Bird", "Sonya", "Blank Slate", "If you love - you do not love", "Okkervil River", "Hunting for a mammoth" and others. These works were readily accepted by the fashionable "thick" magazines - "New World", "Banner" and "October".

The first collection of stories by the St. Petersburg writer received the same title as the first story. Admirers of Tatyana Nikitichna's talent were able to purchase the book in 1987.

Soon after the publication of the collection, Tatyana Tolstaya was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. But Soviet criticism reacted rather coldly to the works of the new member of the Writers' Union. The young writer was reproached for his "thick" writing, cleverness and stereotyped works.

Nevertheless, the number of admirers of Tatyana Tolstoy's work grew rapidly. A young author with a sharp mind and an original point of view, not afraid of sharpness and catchy colors, Tolstaya quickly burst into the modern literary get-together. The writer is reputed to be an intellectual and even a rebel. The heroes of the works are unexpected characters - old-regime old women, disabled children, city madmen and homeless people. The bourgeoisie and consumer psychology of modern society are especially sharply ridiculed.

In 1989, Tatiana Tolstaya was admitted to the Russian PEN Center. And the next year, the writer went to the United States, where she was offered to teach Russian literature and writing at one of the colleges located in Princeton. During this period, Tolstaya collaborated with well-known magazines, including The New Yorker and TLS.

Throughout the 1990s, Tatyana Nikitichna regularly visited America, where she lectured at various universities. Tolstaya lived in the United States for several months and soon noticed that, under the influence of the environment, the language of the emigrants was being filled with "non-words", some kind of ugly hybrids of several languages. The witty writer was able to display this phenomenon in detail in the essay "Hope and Support".

In the 90s, Tatyana did not forget her homeland, where in the weekly "Moskovskie Novosti" the writer was provided with her own heading called "Own Bell Tower". Tolstaya held the post of editor in Stolitsa magazine. The writer's articles also appeared in the Russian Telegraph. Abroad, Tatiana Tolstaya set about creating translations of her own works, thanks to which she gained world literary fame. In 1998, together with her sister Natalya Tolstoy, she published the book "Sisters".

In Russia, where the writer finally returned in 1999, Tatyana Tolstaya returned to journalistic and teaching activities.

In 2000, Tatyana Tolstoy's first novel, called "Kys", appeared. The work was met with controversy, but gained many fans. The book deals with Russia, which survived a nuclear explosion, after which the intellectual abilities of the population sharply decreased. Primitive instincts have replaced the norms of morality and ethics for man. In the novel, created without a single positive character, every line is sarcastic. The novel brought the creator the Triumph Prize and soon became a bestseller. The plot has repeatedly become the basis for stage performances, including radio performances.

And the next year, three more books by Tolstoy were published: collections of stories "Day", "Night" and "Two", the circulation of which amounted to 200 thousand copies. In the same year, the writer was awarded the prize of the XIV Moscow International Book Fair in the category "Prose".

Since 2002, Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya has appeared on the screen. First in the program "Basic Instinct", and then in the "School of Scandal". She hosted the last talk show with Avdotya Smirnova. The program became a favorite for many intellectuals and brought the TEFI award to the hosts. Later, Tolstaya appeared in another show called "Minute of Glory."

In the early 2000s, Tatyana Tolstoy's bibliography was replenished with the works "Raisins", "Circle", "White Walls", "Women's Day", "Not Kys", "River". In 2010, Tolstaya, together with her niece Olga Prokhorova, publishes the first book for children, which was named "The ABC of Buratino". There is a connection with the famous work of Tatiana Nikitichna's grandfather, "The Golden Key, or The Adventures of Buratino."

In 2010, the writer was awarded a number of international prizes. Two years later, the radio station "Echo of Moscow" and the magazine "Ogonyok" put the name of the writer on the list of "One hundred most influential women in Russia." In 2014, after the release of the stories "At Low Fire", "Invisible Maiden", "Light Worlds" Tatyana Tolstaya became a laureate of the Belkin Literary Prize. A year later, the writer pleased her fans with the collections "Felt Age" and "Girl in Bloom".

Another talent of Tatiana Tolstoy is cooking. Behind the shoulders of the writer is a large baggage of recipes for preparing dishes of European and Russian cuisine. The writer places the description of the preparation of pies, salads, cakes on her Facebook page and on the LJ blog. Tatiana's recipe descriptions are accompanied by colorful photos that increase the viewing of accounts by network users.

As an intelligent and intelligent person, Tatyana Nikitichna does not discuss her private life and does not expose details for public consideration. It is known that Tatiana's personal life is the sons of Artemy Lebedev and Alexei Lebedev, who were born of a marriage with Andrei Lebedev, a descendant of the famous military leader.

Artemy is a talented designer who has his own studio, where Lebedev provides artistic direction.

The youngest son of Tatiana Tolstoy, Aleksey, is a photographer, lives in America and is engaged in computer graphics and architecture.

Now the writer devotes her free time to blogging, as well as creative meetings with fans. In 2017, Tatiana Tolstaya visited Riga, where she talked with readers in the format of a creative evening, after which she gave an interview to a portal dedicated to cultural news.

1987 - "We sat on the golden porch ..." 1997 - "You love - you do not love" 1998 - "Sisters" 2001 - "Kys" 2002 - "Raisins" 2003 - "Circle" 2006 - "Women's Day" 2007 - "Day. Personal "2007 -" Night "2007 -" River "2011 -" The same ABC of Buratino "2014 -" Light Worlds "2015 -" Girl in Bloom "2015 -" Felt Age "

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