News & Events

Monday, October 5, 2009
by: Maxim Matusevich, Ph.D.

Anya Ulinich, the author of an award winning novel Petropolis will speak at the Slavic Club meeting on Thursday, October 22 at 6 p.m. in Fahy Hall Room 236.

Anya Ulinich grew up in Moscow and immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 17. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received an M.F.A. from the University of California at Davis. In 2000, she moved to Brooklyn, abandoned painting and began to write.

Her first novel, Petropolis, was published by Viking Press in 2007. It traces Russian-Jewish Sasha Goldberg's screwball coming-of-age and search for her long-ago disappeared father. The novel received the National Book Award’s “Five Under 35” prize. Ulinich has also written many short stories appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine. In 2008, the Foundation for Jewish Culture awarded Anya Ulinich its prestigious Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction.

The event is co-sponsored by the Russian and East European Studies Program and the Slavic Club. Partial funding for this Distinguished Guest Lecturer Series event has been provided by the College of Arts and Sciences thanks to the generous support of the President's Advisory Council members.

For more information please contact:
Maxim Matusevich, Ph.D.
(973) 761-9386
maxim.matusevich@shu.edu