Anastasia Gosteva
Anastasia Gosteva (born 2 February 1975) is a Russian writer, journalist and translator who since the late 1990s has published a number of successful novels.[1] Her imaginative story Big Bang and Turtles has been published in English online with support from UNESCO.[2]
Biography
Born in Moscow, Gosteva is a physics graduate (1997) from
Gosteva is a great traveller, especially to the Orient. She has been to India and the relatively unknown Mustang District of Nepal, and has discussed Buddhism with the Dalai Lama. It was on the basis of this experience that Lyudmila Ulitskaya invited her to write a story based on cosmogony. Her fantastic tale Большой взрыв и черепахи (2006), translated by Boris Meshcheryakov as Big Bang and Turtles, has now been published online by UNESCO.[2] The book, presented as a children's fairy tale, tells the story of how little Cyril enters the mysterious home of an eccentric professor whose mission is to stop people quarrelling about their many different religions.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Nine of Russia's Foremost Women Writers". Glas New Russian Writing. Archived from the original on 22 January 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^ a b "Big Bang and Turtles" (PDF). UNESCO: Rudomino Publishers. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^ "Two Kinds of Vagueness: 'Europeanness' in Tim Parks and Nastasia Gostova". ingentaconnect. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^ "Date submitted: 06/07/2009 School Library – the Territory of Tolerance: (Project Other. Others. Otherwise for Children and Multicultural Education)" (PDF). IFLA. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
External links
- Full text of Gosteva's novel Big Bang and Turtles, published with the support of UNESCO
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