Lioudmila Oulitskaïa, 81, is known in Russia for her books “Sonietchka” – won the Medici Prize in 1996 – and “Le Chapiteau Vert” She has lived in Germany since 2022 after leaving Russia following the launch of the offensive in Ukraine. Hundreds of people, human rights activists, opponents or independent journalists, have been classified in Russia in recent years as “foreign agents”.
This writer, who loves freedom of expression, likes to stand up to the Kremlin, a very rare choice in the Russian literary world.