Galina Leonidovna Yuzefovich (russian: Гали́на Леони́довна Юзефо́вич) is a Russian literary critic, teacher, and columnist. She is the daughter of two prominent Russian writers and

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Biography

Galina graduated from the

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in 1999. By then, she had already started publishing her literary reviews. As a journalist, she published in

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, Itogi,

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, etc. In 2013, she joined the jury of the Russian literary award . Since 2014, she's having her weekly column in

Meduza ''Meduza'' ( rus, Медуза, t=jellyfish) is a Russian- and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga. It was founded in 2014 by a group of former employees of the then-independent ''Lenta.ru'' news website. Free mob ...

writing about book business and new publications in the literature world. She confesses to read at least 3 books per week, looking through 5 more. Her peers consider Yuzefovich to be the most influential literary critic in RuNet, publishers state that her reviews on the cover significantly raise sells for every book. She also hosts her radio show on

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and leads a course on literary criticism in Moscow Creative Writing School. In 2016 Yuzefovich released a collection of essays under the title ‘Wonderous adventures of the pilot-fish: 150000 words on literature’ («Удивительные приключения рыбы-лоцмана: 150 000 слов о литературе»). In 2018, she released her second book ‘Bestsellers. How Everything Works in the World of Literature’ («О чём говорят бестселлеры. Как всё устроено в книжном мире»). In 2020, Yuzefovich released her new book, ‘Mysterious Map’ (ru «Таинственная карта»). Yuzefovich publicly condemned the

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, in early spring 2022 she and her family moved to

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. Soon, she launched a podcast on

, dedicated to role of books and reading as possible soothe for soul in war time.

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