Background
Gorlanova was born in 1947, grew up in a village in Permanent region, and studied philology at Permanent University.
Gorlanova was born in 1947, grew up in a village in Permanent region, and studied philology at Permanent University.
PSU Faculty of Philology.
The life in her invented Permanent is squalid but merry, risky but indestructible. Her main themes are maternity, hardships of everyday chores of a typical Russian woman, life of provincial intelligentsia.
Gorlanova"s short novel "Love in Rubber Gloves" won first prize at the International Competition for Women"s Prose. Her novel "Roman vospitaniya" ("Learning a Lesson") was short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize (1996). Her stories have been published for many years in major Russian literary magazines. She had guest author readings in Germany, her short-stories were published in English in "NINE of Russia"s Foremost Women Writers" (), an anthology, 288 pp. with photographs and authors" notes.
Union of Russian Writers.
