Russian bookshelf: Chanel №5 by Olga Slavnikova

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Chanel №5

Drawing by Natalia Mikhaylenko
Voice over and montage by Daria Donina
Translated by Сarol Ermakova, translation provided by Glas publishing house
Back music: Peter Kopylov, Natalia Yurlova, Ilya Boronin

Olga Slavnikova, a past winner of the Russian Booker Prize, is the director of the Debut Prize for young writers, and an internationally-renowned author of five award-winning novels, which have been translated into French and Italian. She rose to fame as a writer in her hometown of Ekaterinburg in the Urals before moving to Moscow.

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