Nationality Russian Spouse Leonid Latynin Years active 1965–present | Name Alla Latynina Children Yulia Latynina Role Literary critic | |
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Native name Алла Николаевна Латынина Full Name Alla Nikolayevna Bocharova Born 4 July 1940 (age 83) ( 1940-07-04 ) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Occupation literary critic and scholar | ||
Alma mater Moscow State University | ||
Alla Nikolayevna Latynina (Russian: А́лла Никола́евна Лат́ынина; born 4 July 1940) is a Russian literary critic. Her husband is the writer and poet Leonid Latynin. She is the mother of Russian writer and journalist Yulia Latynina.
Born on 4 July 1940 in Moscow into the family of an office worker. Graduated from the Department of Philology, Moscow University in 1963 upon which took a post-graduate course at the Department of Philosophy, Moscow University. Defended her Ph.D. on the subject of “Critique of the Existential Interpretation of Dostoyevsky”. Received her Cand. Sc. degree in Philosophy in 1970.
Alla Latynina has been publishing as a critic since 1969. In 1963-65, worked at the Sovetsky Pisatel publishing house. In 1969-2003, worked on the stuff of the Literary Gazette as a columnist, head of the section for literary history, editor at the Russian literature section. In 1992-93, worked at Obschaya Gazeta in charge of the culture section. Columnist on the VremyaMN weekly since 2002. In 1994-2001, head of the literary department and columnist at the Literary Gazette. Columnist on the Novy Mir magazine since 2001. Alla Latynina was on the editorial board of the Moscow Vestnik magazine (1989); on the board of the book series “Anons” at Moskovsky Rabochy Publishers (1989–90), and the Strelets magazine. Served as Chairman on the following juries: Russian Booker Prize in 1992, Appolon Grigoryev Prize in 2001, Alexander Blok Prize in 2000, Russian Subject Prize in 2002. Winner of the Literary Gazette Prize and the Journalists Union Prize in 1977. Winner of the Novy Mir Prize in 2005. Member of the Writers Union since 1979. Member of the Russian PEN.