The Muscovite’s work is arriving in English this year in three books of remarkable memoir, poems and essays that, she explains, reach for ‘the truth of the past’ Years ago, Maria Stepanova visited the ...

A compendious family scrapbook that tells the story of a turbulent century of Russian life Russian poet Maria Stepanova, born in 1972, came of age amid all the upheaval of the post-Soviet 90s, and the ...

This week, guest host Marc Filippino discusses the FT's war coverage in Ukraine with our Editor, Roula Khalaf. How does a news organisation make decisions during wartime? Then Marc talks with Maria ...

It’s a rare thing that a Russian book is shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. So what’s so special about this novel? There were only two times before that a Russian writer was nominated for ...

Maria Stepanova’s sweeping meta-memoir, superbly translated by Sasha Dugdale, starts with her sifting through the “layered strata of possessions” in her aunt’s apartment after her death. As Stepanova ...

Foto: Gleb Morev Maria Stepanova (b. 1972) is a poet, essayist, and journalist. She is the author of ten poetry collections and two books of essays, and a recipient of several Russian and ...

To fashion a work of art from the material of war is to risk exploiting, or even ennobling, the horrors that are depicted; but to say nothing about those horrors can seem like defeatism—or worse, ...

Maria Stepanova, a powerful contempory voice of Russian literature now living in exile in Berlin, has been awarded the prestigious Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding in 2023. Russian author ...