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Nina Berberova

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born

July 26, 1901 in Russian Federation

died

September 26, 1993

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Nina Nikolayevna Berberova was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of Russian exiles in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia and died in Philadelphia.

Born in 1901 to an Armenian father and a Russian mother, Nina Berberova was brought up in St Petersburg.[1] She left Russia in 1922 with poet Vladislav Khodasevich (who died in 1939). The couple lived in several European cities before settling in Paris in 1925. There Berberova began publishing short stories for the Russian emigre publications Poslednie Novosti ("The Latest News") and Russkaia Mysl’ ("Russian Thought"). The stories collected in Oblegchenie Uchasti ("The Easing of Fate") and Biiankurskie Prazdniki ("Billancourt Fiestas") were written during...more

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Books by Nina Berberova

Average rating: 3.83 · 1,069 ratings · 168 reviews · 49 distinct works

	The Accompanist 3.60 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1934 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Book of Happiness 3.55 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Ladies from St. Petersburg: Three Novellas 3.50 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Italics Are Mine by Nina Berberova, Philippe Radley (Translator) 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1969 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Il giunco mormorante by Nina Berberova, Donatella Sant'Elia (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1990	My rating:
	The Tattered Cloak: And Other Stories 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	شنل پاره by Nina Berberova (Author), فاطمه ولیانی (Translator) 2.87 avg rating — 30 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Cape of Storms 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Le Roseau Révolté 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1988	My rating:
	Il lacchè e la puttana by Nina Berberova, Donatella Sant'Elia (Translator) 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1937 — 8 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Nina Berberova

“So we stood on the corner by the stationery shop and were deeply insincere with each other.
--The Tattered Cloak”
― Nina Berberova, The Tattered Cloak: And Other Stories

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