Elvira Baryakina
Författare till White Shanghai A Novel of the Roaring Twenties in China
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- Vedertaget namn
- Baryakina, Elvira
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Барякина, Эльвира Валерьевна
Baryakina, El'vira Valer'evna - Födelsedag
- 1975-11-09
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA (naturalized 2002)
USSR (birth) - Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- Gorky, Russia, Soviet Union
- Bostadsorter
- Long Beach, California, USA
- Utbildning
- Nizhny Novgorod State University (law) (1997)
- Yrken
- historical fiction author
lecturer in law
corporate lawyer
administrative assistant - Organisationer
- Nizhny Novgorod State University
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- Olga Slade
- Kort biografi
- Born in the USSR in 1975 into the family of Russian intelligentsia, Elvira Baryakina lives her early years during the Brezhnev's Era of Stagnation. Despite the strict ideology of the time, her family continues to savor books, including, where possible, those banned by the regime.
As Perestroika dawned, the foundations upon which her Soviet world was built begin to crumble: communist values evaporate, but nothing emerges to fill the void. That's when Elvira starts to seriously consider writing, having found her true calling in drawing a complete picture of historic events as they engulf one country after another, interconnected in all their complexity.
With a law degree in her pocket, in 2002 Elvira decides to move to the US, leaving behind her teaching career. In the United States she tries out her pen, and her fascination with the aesthetics, ideals and social turbulence of the early 20th century becomes a core element in her works. She describes her craft as "a cross between archaeology and alchemy" where she conceives her stories from the testimonies she brings to light and the memories she resurrects.
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