Larisa Vaneeva Explained

Larisa L'vovna Vaneeva (ru|Лариса Ванеева; born 1953) is a Russian writer.^[1]

Life

Larisa Vaneeva was born in 1953 in Novosibirsk.^[2]

Throughout the 1980s Vaneeva found it impossible to publish, and was forced to work as a caretaker.^[2] As a woman writer Vaneeva even faced criticism for her "menstrual prose". She joined with Svetlana Vasilenko and others to form a feminist literary group, The New Amazons, who published an anthology of women's writing in Russia in 1990.^[3]

Vaneeva lives in the Pühtitsa Convent in Estonia and has not written for a long time.^[4]

Works

• (ed.) Ne pomni︠a︡shchai︠a︡ zla : novai︠a︡ zhenskai︠a︡ proza. 1990.
• Iz Kuba : rasskazy, povestʹ [Out of the Cube]. Moscow, 1990.
• Igra tuchi s dozhdem. Moscow, 1991.
• Liki: rasskazy i povesti. Tallinn, 2002.

Notes and References

1. Book: Helena Goscilo. B. L. Bessonov. Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. 1994. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-26265-4. 687–8. Vaneeva, Larisa.
2. Book: Helena Goscilo. Lives in Transit: A Collection of Recent Russian Women's Writing. 1995. Ardis. 978-0-679-76297-3. 326.
3. Book: Rosalind Marsh. Rosalind Marsh. New Women's Writing: Contextualising Fiction, Poetry and Philosophy. 2018. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 978-1-5275-2340-1. 416, 419. "In Search of the Woolly Mammoth"? Feminist Prose Writings in Contemporary Russia.
4. Book: Nadezhda Azhgikhina. Rosalind Marsh. New Women's Writing: Contextualising Fiction, Poetry and Philosophy. 2018. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 978-1-5275-2340-1. 68–80. The New Russian Women's Prose in the Mirror of Intellectual Discussion.