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Russia on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Liza Alexandrova-Zorina

Translated by Natasha Perova & Sally Foreman

‘The Russian people suffer from a victim complex: they believe that nothing depends on them, and by them nothing can be changed.’

Liza Alexandrova-Zorina

Liza Alexandrova-Zorina was born in 1984 in a little town on Cola Peninsula beyond the Arctic Circle (the setting of her prize-winning novel, The Little Man). She later settled in Moscow and became a prolific journalist, film-maker, popular columnist and a public activist. Liza was a finalist in two important literary competitions: the Debut Prize and the NOS Literary Prize with her novel The Little Man, and was also the winner of the Northern Star Prize for her collection of short stories The Rebel. She has written four novels, which have published in French, English, Arabic, Hindi, Ukrainian and Estonian.

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Translated by Natasha Perova

Natasha Perova translates from Russian to English. She is the editor of Glas, a showcase for contemporary Russian fiction in translation.

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Translated by Sally Foreman

Sally Foreman is a translator from Russian to English. She is on a Russian cultural adventure, and currently lives and works in Moscow.

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