Alexandra Popoff
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Alexandra Popoff

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ALEXANDRA POPOFF is a former Moscow journalist and Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow. She is the author of several literary biographies, including her latest book, AYN RAND (2024), and the award-winning VASILY GROSSMAN (2019) and SOPHIA TOLSTOY (2010). Her book THE WIVES became a Wall Street Journal best non-fiction title for 2012. VASILY GROSSMAN AND THE SOVIET CENTURY won the 2019 Canadian Jewish Literary award for Biography; University of Saskatchewan Nonfiction Award (2020); became a Finalist in the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards, Biography category, and was long-listed for the 2019 Cundill History Prize. In March 2025, VASILY GROSSMAN ranked #4 on BookAuthority's best Russian Biography titles of all time. Popoff contributed essays and book reviews to The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, National Post, The Globe and Mail, Literary Hub, Tablet Magazine, and Times Literary Supplement. She lives in Canada.
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    • The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants
    • By: Alexandra Popoff
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    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 30-10-13
    • Language: English
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