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National Book Foundation > Author > Maria Stepanova
Maria Stepanova, born in Moscow in 1972, is a poet, essayist, and journalist, and editor in chief of the online newspaper Colta. She was awarded the Bolshaya Kniga Award for In Memory of Memory. (Photo credit: Andrey Natotsinsky) More about this author >
With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. More about this book >