Sana Valiulina
Year of birth: 1964
Place of birth: Tallinn
lives in Amsterdam
Breda: De Geus, 2001
Vanuit nergens met liefde
Breda: De Geus, 2002
Didar en Faroek
Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 2006
Summer in Zantiadi (radio book in English)
www.radioboeken.eu
After her studies in Moscow, Sana Valiulina (b. 1964, Tallinn) emigrated to the Netherlands. In 2001, she published her much discussed debut “Het Kruis” (The Cross), on the dissipated life in a Moscow student flat. Her novella collection “Vanuit nergens met liefde” (From Nowhere With Love) appeared in 2002. Her novel “Didar en Faroek” (Didar and Faruk), published in 2006, is based on her parents' life. During her stay at the Writers’ and Translators’ house in Käsmu/Estonia she would like to work on her fourth novel “Children of Brezjnev”, which will be about her generation born in the sixties in Estonia. She wants to examine what formed this generation and what influenced its (political) thinking.
The HALMA grant for Sana Valiulina was made possible by the Fonds voor de Letteren.
