Olga Larionova (born 1935) is the pen name of Olga Nikolayevna Tideman, a Russian science fiction author who began in the Soviet era. Her debut novel was ''A Leopard from the top of Kilimanjaro'' ("Леопард с вершины Килиманджаро") from 1965. Her story ''A Tale of Kings'' was in the anthology ''Earth and Elsewhere'', which gained her notice in the West. She is one of the few successful female Russian science fiction writers of her generation. She won the

Aelita Prize The Aelita Award is an award for science fiction writers founded by the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation (formerly the Soviet Writers Union) and " Uralsky Sledopyt Magazine" in 1981. It was named after the classic Russian science fiction ...

in 1987 and remains one of the few women to win it as an individual writer.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Larionova, Olga Soviet science fiction writers Russian science fiction writers 1935 births Living people Women science fiction and fantasy writers