Background
Olga Kuchkina was born in 1936. She is a daughter of a historian A.P. Kuchkin, a sister of a historian V.A. Kuchkin.
journalist playwright prose writer poet
Olga Kuchkina was born in 1936. She is a daughter of a historian A.P. Kuchkin, a sister of a historian V.A. Kuchkin.
She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University.
She is an observer of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. An honored worker of Culture of the RSFSR. A member of the Union of Journalists. A member of the Writers' Union of Moscow. A member of the Russian PEN Center. A member of the jury of the Independent Literary Prize "Debut" (2003 and 2007). A member of the Academy (jury) "The Big Book". An academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. A full member of the Academy of the Russian Press. As a publicist she was published in the magazines Ogonyok, Novoe Vremya, Zhurnalist, in "Literary paper", "Novaya paper", "Nezavisimaya paper", the newspaper "Moscow News" and others.
On the channel Russian Universities (later on NTV and Daryal TV) conducted the program "Time" (1995-1999), where her interlocutors were Oleg Chukhontsev, Bella Akhmadulina, Yunna Morits, Fazil Iskander, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Evgeny Kolobov , Leonid Filatov, Inna Churikova, Anatoly Vasiliev, Otar Ioseliani, Alexey Kozlov, Grigory Yavlinsky, Yegor Gaidar and others.
In 1973-1986 she was a member of the Arbuzov Studio of Young Playwrights. The play "White Summer" was on the stage of the Yermolova Theater, "Passion for Varvara" - on the stage of the theater-studio Oleg Tabakov and at the University Theater of St. Louis (the USA), "Joseph and Nadezhda, or the Kremlin Theater" - on the stages of England, France, Finland, Sweden, Japan. In the Gogol Theater the plays Moore, Son of Tsvetaeva and Mistral they played at least several seasons.
Plays, poetry and prose were published in the magazines "Theater", "Modern Drama", "New World, October, Znamya, Friendship of Peoples, Neva, Continent, Arion.
Goodbye in April!
1976White summer
1987This is me, love!
1988The informing vessel
1991An Italian Butterfly
1999The leap year
2002The numerator
2012Favorite faces of Russia
1998Cheating substances
1999The Time
2001Other Voices
2003The Philosopher and the Girl
2005The power and the press in Russia. A view from within
2006Boys + girls =
2011Zinaida Reich. Rock
2011Where are you?
2013