2008 Speakers
Olga Grushin
Olga Grushin was born in Moscow and spent her childhood in Prague. Educated at Moscow State University and Emory University, Grushin is a citizen of both the Soviet Union and the United States. She has been recognized for her various short fiction pieces published in The Massachusetts Review, Partisan Review, Confrontation, and Art Times. Her first novel, The Dream Life of Sukhanov, appeared last year to excellent reviews, and she is currently at work on her second. Grushin lives near Washington, D.C.
Speaker Links
Visit Olga Grushin’s homepage.
Read an interview with Grushin.
The Washington Post reviews The Dream Life of Sukhanov.
Read an excerpt from Grushin's first novel.
Olga Grushin receives the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award for The Dream Life of Sukhanov.