Yana Zavatskaya | |
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Born | March 11, 1970 Saint Petersburg |
Occupation | Writer, science fiction author, prose writer, translator, poet, blogger, opinion writer |
Political party | The Left, Communist Party of Germany (1990) |
Yana Yulievna Zavatskaya (Russian: Яна Юльевна Завацкая;[1] born 11 March 1970 in Leningrad)[2] is a Soviet Russian prose writer and translator.[3][4] Laureate of the 2019 "Running on Waves" Prize.[2] Yana Zavatskaya is a social fiction writer. She also is a blogger (at LiveJournal, listed in the Top 100 bloggers).[5] She writes for the Pravda.ru.[6]
Her father was a mathematics teacher and poet.[6] She grew up in Chelyabinsk.[2] She completed four years of medical school.[6]
In 1993, she moved with her family to Germany.[2][3] In Germany, she works in a nursing home for elderly.[2][3]
She is Catholic,[2][3] and a was member of the German Communist Party.[2] She left the party in 2023.[7]
She has two children.[2][6]
She was criticized by Alexander Tarasov.[8]