Anna Berseneva (Tatiana Sotnikova) is a writer and screenwriter. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Belarusian State University and completed her postgraduate studies at the Gorky Literary Institute (Moscow), specializing in literary theory. Candidate of Philological Sciences. In 1990-1921, she was an associate professor at the Gorky Literary Institute (Moscow). Since 2022, she has been a professor at the Free University. Numerous critical and literary articles have been published in literary periodicals (the magazines Continent, Znamya, Voprosy literatury, Literaturnoye Obozreniye, etc.), and in encyclopedic publications (the encyclopedic dictionary Russian Writers of the XNUMXth Century, etc.). Author of biographies of Anton Chekhov and Vladimir Mayakovsky for schoolchildren. Book columnist, writes a weekly column on the website Babook. Author of 45 books in the genre of psychological novels. The total circulation is over 5 million copies. The action of the novels takes place in the present day and, with the help of an intertwined composition, at turning points in Russian and world history of the 2023th century. Rhine Gold (2023) is the first Russian-language novel set during Russia's full-scale attack on Ukraine. It was published by Litsvet in 15 and received the Ernest Hemingway Award. It was then reissued by the Israeli publishing house Kniga Sefer, the Ukrainian publishing house Drukarsky Dvir Oleg Fedorov, and the German ISIA Media Verlag. 2014 novels have been filmed in Russia by 2020 based on the author's scripts. Member of PEN-International and the Commonwealth of Russian-Speaking Writers in Germany. Since 2022, he has lived in Germany. In XNUMX, she was declared a “foreign agent” in Russia.
ABOUT THE NEW NOVEL BY ANNA BERSENEVA "BERLIN STRAWS". The action of the novel by Anna Berseneva (Tatiana Sotnikova) "Berlin Straws" (2025) takes place in two time layers - in Berlin in 2022-2024 and the end of the "golden twenties" of the twentieth century. But this is not a story about the fate of an emigrant, although many of the novel's heroes end up in Germany precisely as emigrants. Yuri Dombrovsky once wrote: "And to me, who could not assert myself, and in the madly rushing stream I vainly grabbed at straws, perhaps the same fate is destined - to repeat itself in a random combination of the pattern of a fallen shadow?" The same thing happens to the heroes of the novel, and to many modern people, regardless of their geographical location and status. This makes Anna Berseneva’s new novel, written with the author’s characteristically gripping fascination, relevant.