Irina Borisova

Irina Borisova was born and lives in St. Petersburg, Russia. She has written the books Are There Really Pears Like That? (nominated for the Apollon Grigoriev Prize in 2001), For Young Men in a Warm Season, and Mistress. She has translated the Canadian writer Tod Greenaway’s book, Loitering, into Russian and translated her own book, Lonely Place America, into English. “It was really like that!” her readers will say, recalling Perestroika, depicted by the author, as well as old and new times.