Nella Bielski [SEP] native language
Nella Bielski
Nella Bielski is a Ukrainian-born French writer and actress.
Bielski was born in Ukraine in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. She studied philosophy at Moscow State University. In the early 1960s she met a French journalist, married him and was allowed to leave the Soviet Union for France.
Bielski acted in films. In 1970 her first novel "Voronej" appeared in French. Since then she has written a number of novels, also translated into English, including "Oranges for the Son of
-Wingate Literary Prize for her critically acclaimed family memoir "Losing the Dead", while her novel "The Memory Man" was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and won the Canadian Holocaust Fiction Award. "Mad, Bad and Sad" was short-listed for the Warwick Prize and long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, amongst others, and won several awards. With John Berger, she translated the work of Nella Bielski. The "Year is 42" won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Literary