Born Evelyn Mary Clowes. Also known as Evelyn May Mordaunt. Primarily published under the name Elinor Mordaunt. Also published under the pen name: A. Riposte. ------------------------------- Also a wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_M... ------------------------------- Virginia Woolf writes about two of her books in Contemporary Writers: Essays on Twentieth Century Books and Authors
Katja Petrowskaja was born in Kyiv in 1970, to a Russian-speaking family. She studied literature in Tartu, Estonia and then completed her PhD in Moscow. She has lived in Berlin since 1999. She won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2013 and wrote her bestselling first book Maybe Esther, in German. It was published in 2014 and was awarded the Premio Strega Europeo Prize, the Aalen Town Schubart Literary Prize, the Ernst Toller Prize and the Aspekte Literature Prize. It was a Spiegel bestseller and has been translated into nineteen languages
