Anna Berdichevskaya
Russia
Anna Berdichevskaya, a poet and essayist, a member of PEN International. Editor-in-Chief of “ArsisBooks” publishing house. Anna was born in Solikamsk in a Gulag camp. Graduated from Mechanics and Mathematics faculty in Perm State University. In 1973 moved to Tbilisi, then in 1991 - to Moscow, where she founded an international projects magazine named “Business Match” and became its editor-in-chief for 14 following years.
She wrote the screenplay for several documentary films, including “Andrey Bitov. A writer in a half-written world” and “Oleg Chukhontsev. I’m a wanderer of a loutish province…”