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Evgenia Citkowitz
Born
Eugenia Citkowitz[1]

1964 (age 59–60)
New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)Playwright, author, journalist
Years active2007–present
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(m. 1990; died 2023)​
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Websiteevgeniacitkowitz.com

Evgenia Citkowitz (born Eugenia Citkowitz; 1964) is an American playwright, author and journalist.

Early life and family

Eugenia Citkowitz[1] was born in 1964 in the state of New York, the youngest of two daughters to Israel Citkowitz, an American pianist, composer and piano teacher, and Lady Caroline Blackwood, an English writer.[2] Citkowitz grew up in London, England;[3] about her childhood, she said [she had a] "chaotic home life, lonely at times, although I met many interesting people."[4] Her parents divorced in 1972, although her father continued to live nearby and helped raise her and her sisters until his death.[5] Citkowitz has four half-siblings.[6] Her stepfather was Robert Lowell, an American poet.[4]

Citkowitz attended a boarding school in Devon, South West England.[7] During her teenage years, she attended St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith.[8] Citkowitz graduated with a degree in English literature from Oxford University.[3] She was educated, briefly, in the United States.[9]

Family

Through her mother, Citkowitz is a member of the Guinness family, a prominent Irish and British family in brewing, banking and politics.[10] Citkowitz is an heiress to the Guinness beer fortune.[4]

Citkowitz's maternal grandparents were Maureen Constance Guinness, an Anglo-Irish socialite, and Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, an English politician.[11] Her uncle and aunt were Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, an English noble, and Lindy Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, an English conservationist, and Citkowitz's fifth cousin.

Career

Citkowitz's first book Ether was published in 2010, a collection of seven short stories and a novella.[12] Ether was picked as New York Times Editors' Choice and made it to The New Yorker's Book Club.[3]

Citkowitz's debut novel The Shades, a psychological thriller, was published on 19 June 2018. The Shades covers the impact of a daughter's death on a family as they try to move on with their grief.[13] Citkowitz stated that the purpose of the novel was to look into the "fragility of human existence" and the original story grew from the idea of "someone returning to their childhood home" that she then expanded upon. One of her primary focuses was to create characters that felt "authentic as people" in order to form empathy in the reader and also why she researched the intricacies of the fields and hobbies each of the characters practice in the novel, such as pottery.[14]

Citkowitz has written for various publications across the United Kingdom and the United States, including The Sunday Times, The London Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times and Harper's Bazaar.[15]

Published works

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Accolades

Citkowitz has previously been longlisted for The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, and was one of the winners of The Word Factory's Neil Gaiman, Fables for a Modern World story competition.[9]

Personal life

Citkowitz keeps her personal life mostly private.[4] On 22 September 1990, Citkowitz married Julian Sands, an English actor;[17] after being introduced by John Malkovich. Sands disappeared in January 2023 during a hiking trip. His skeletal remains were found and identified in June 2023.[18] The couple have two daughters[19] and she is stepmother to a son from Sands' first marriage.[3] Since 1990, Citkowitz and her family have permanently resided in Los Angeles, California.[4][20]

References

  1. ^ a b "Eugenia Citkowitz - Birthday, Birth Place, Zodiac Sign". bornglory.com. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
  2. ^ Als, Hilton (July 30, 2010). "This Month's Author: Evgenia Citkowitz". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 7, 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d Mustafa, Filiz (January 19, 2023). "Julian Sands shares two children with accomplished author Evgenia Citkowitz". HITC. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Evgenia Citkowitz | Aleim Magazine". aleim.com. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
  5. ISSN 0362-4331
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  6. ISSN 0362-4331
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  7. ^ "Evgenia Citkowitz | Aleim Magazine". aleim.com. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
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  9. ^ a b "Evgenia Citkowitz". www.evgeniacitkowitz.com. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
  10. ^ Essay by 2nd Lord Moyne, The Times 20 November 1959; (Online text in Eugenics Review, April 1960)
  11. ^ Lowell, Ivana (April 10, 2012). "Ivana Lowell: I'm a survivor". Evening Standard. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  12. ^ Reviews for Ether:
  13. ^ Reviews for The Shades:
  14. ^ Evans, Alissa (January 14, 2019). "Author examines shades of grief, aftermath of tragedy in new book at Hammer Museum". Daily Bruin. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
  15. ^ "Who is Evgenia Citkowitz, The Shades author and actor Julian Sands's wife?". Opoyi. January 19, 2023. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
  16. ^ "Books by Evgenia Citkowitz and Complete Book Reviews". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
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  18. ^ Nicholson, Amy (November 2018). "'I didn't want to be a Hollywood actor': Julian Sands on controversy, fear and his best friend, John Malkovich". The Guardian. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  19. ^ bshilliday (January 24, 2023). "Meet Actor Julian Sands' Wife of Two Decades and His 3 Children". Closer Weekly. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
  20. ^ Bashforth, Emily (January 28, 2023). "Julian Sands' hiking partner 'remaining hopeful' of actor's safe return". Retrieved February 19, 2023.
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