Olga Grjasnowa was born in 1984 in Baku, Azerbaijan. She spent extended periods abroad in Poland, Russia, Israel and Turkey. She was awarded the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize and the Anna Seghers Prize ...
In 2012 she won the Anna Seghers Prize and was nominated for the German Book Prize. In her first novel, All Russians Love Birch Trees, Olga Grjasnowa portrays an autonomous, determined, even driven ...