ivanova

Natalya Borisovna Ivanova, a well-known, literary and cultural critic and commentator, is First Deputy Editor of the literary-political monthly, Znamya (Moscow). One of the leading voices of reform since the late 1980s, she has published her essays and commentary in all major Russian periodicals, including Novyi mir, Nezavisimaia gazeta, Literaturnaia gazeta, and others. One of the best-known contemporary essayists, she plays an important role in the institutional life of contemporary Russian culture, serving as board member in a number of foundations and committees.

Collections of her essays include:

	Gibel’ bogov: stat’i (Biblioteka "Ogonek" ; 1991, no. 48)
	Voskreshenie nuzhnykh veshchei (Moskva: Moskovskii rabochii, 1990)
	Smekh protiv strakha, ili, Fazil’ Iskander (Moskva: Sov. Pisatel’, 1990)
	Osvobozhdenie ot strakha (Biblioteka "Ogonek" ; 1989, no. 7)
	Tochka zrenieiia: o proze poslednikh let (Moskva: Sov. Pisatel’, 1988).

The title of her paper at the Conference is: "A New Mosaic -- Old Fragments: Re-coding Soviet History in Contemporary Russian Prose"

Natalya Ivanova

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