Galina Borisovna Dutkina

Background

Galina Dutkina was born on July 11, 1952 in Tambov, Russia. Daughter of Boris Andreevich and Victoria Georgievna ( maiden name: Annikova) Lisitsyn.

Education

Galina received a diploma from Moscow State University (Institute of Asian and African Countries) in 1979. In 1992 she earned a Ph.D. from Russian Academy of Sciences.

Career

Dutkina began her career as an editor and announcer at Moscow Radio, Japanese Section, Moscow, Russia and worked there from 1974 until 1979. Then she worked as senior editor in Oriental department of Progress Publishing House, Moscow between 1980 and 1983. Thereafter she became expert editor in foreign literature department at Raduga Publishing House, Moscow, Russia and hold that position from 1983 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 she was a professor at the Center for Postgraduate Training of High School Professors, Moscow. Since 1995 she has been a freelance journalist and translator. She is a translator into Russian from Japanese and English, including books by Vonda Macklntyre, Robert Asprin, Montague R. James, N. Hoakin, Fay Weldon, and Francis King. Some work appears under the name Galina Annikova.

Achievements

• Dutkina is the author of books"Moscow Days", "Misuteri Mosukuwa", contributor to a number of books, including "Japan: Culture and Society Under Scientific and Technological Revolution", contributor to periodicals, including "Asia and Africa Today", "Modern Foreign Literature Studies Journal", and "New Time".

Works

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  • Moscow Days: Life and Hard Times in the New Russia

Views

Quotations: “I am writing because I cannot live without it; this is my way of life. I have been writing since I was a kid, but it was mainly verses. With age I came to understand how to make a book; that is, my job as an editor gave me some experience and revealed some of the ‘knowhow’ of writing prose. All that was bottled inside me then is now boiling, trying to get out."

“When I write, I try not to think but just listen to my heart, and the words come to me. I decided to write a book about modern Russia because I had a feeling that people in the world underestimate the importance of some processes going on in my country nowadays. I did my best to understand the situation myself and to express clearly my point of view.”

Membership

She is a member of European Association for Japanese Studies, Russian Journalists Union, Russian Translators Union.

Interests

• painting, photography, traveling

• Writers

  Jack London

Connections

Galina married Nikolay Alekseevich Dutkin on January 26, 1972, but they divorced on September 17, 1986. She has a child Darya.

Father:

Boris Andreevich Lisitsyn

Mother:

Victoria Georgievna Lisitsyna

husband:

Nikolay Alekseevich Dutkin

Daughter:

Darya Dutkina