Maria Stepanova

Maria Stepanova, born in Moscow in 1972, is a poet, essayist and journalist. Her works have received numerous international prizes. She has been a formative figure in Moscow’s cosmopolitan literary scenefor a good twenty years. Following the success of her first prose work Памяти памяти, she is now internationally regarded as one of Europe's most important intellectual voices.

Suhrkamp represents world rights to Maria Stepanova’s oeuvre.

Awards (selection)

Berman Literature Prize for Памяти памяти 2023 (Sweden)
Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding for Girls Without Clothes 2023 (Germany)
Prix du Meilleur livre étranger (non-fiction) for Памяти памяти 2022 (France)
Shortlisted for the Prix Médicis étranger for Памяти памяти 2022 (France)
Shortlisted for the Prix Les Inrockuptibles (Romans ou Récits Étrangers) for Памяти памяти 2022 (France)
Shortlisted for the Prix Femina étranger for Памяти памяти 2022 (France)
Longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2021 (UK)
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2021 (UK)
Longlisted for the National Book Award Translated Literature 2021 (USA)
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021 (UK)
Longlisted for the Jan-Michalski-Preis 2021 (Switzerland)
Bolshaya Kniga Award 2018 (Russia)

Praise

»A writer who will likely be spoken about in the same breath as Poland’s Olga Tokarczuk and Belarus’s Svetlana Alexievich in years to come.« Matthew Janney, The Guardian

PUBLICATIONS

Year of Publication: 2024

Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2024

Disappearing Act

Maria Stepanova’s new novella centres around an author referred to only as “M.” M. has been living in the city B. since leaving her home country, which is currently waging war on a neighbouring...

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UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo Editions), USA & Canada (New Directions), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Catalan (Angle), Brazilian Portuguese rights (WMF Martin Fontes), Portuguese rights (Rélogio d’Agua), France (Stock), Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands (Bezige Bij), Denmark (Palomar), Sweden (Nirstedt/litteratur), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Siltala), Czech Republic (Akropolis), Greece (Gutenberg)

Year of Publication: 2023

Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2023

Holy Winter 20/21

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic cut short Maria Stepanova’s stay in Cambridge, UK, in March 2020. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor – the world...

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USA & Canada (New Directions), UK & Commonwealth (Bloodaxe), Italy (Bompiani), Sweden (Nirstedt/litteratur)

Year of Publication: 2020

Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2020

The Body Returns

Even before the international success of her first work of prose, Post-Memory, Maria Stepanova was a famous author. For twenty years, she has been contributing to shaping Moscow’s...

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Italy (Bompiani)

Year of Publication: 2020

Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2020

Girls Without Clothes

Girls Without Clothes, Clothes Without Us, If Air – Maria Stepanova continues her endeavour of »mending life« in her new cycles of poems. They can be...

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The contents of the Suhrkamp-edition are also included in the Italian selection of poems to be published by Bompiani and the Swedish edition of The Body Returns (Kroppens återkomst), published by Nirstedt/literatur in 2021. Other language rights are available.

Greece (Vakxikon)

Year of Publication: 2018

Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2018

In Memory of Memory

Montpellier, 1908: the photograph of a young woman by an easel or »Grandma on the barricades«, as the family calls it. Pre-Revolution portraits, postcards from Venice, Montpellier, or...

Rights sold to:

USA (New Directions), Canada (Book*hug Press), UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo Editions), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Chinese simplex rights (China CITIC Press), Brazilian Portuguese rights (WMF Martins Fontes), Portuguese rights (Relógio D'Água), France (Stock, Paperback Sublicense: Le Livre de Poche), Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Denmark (Palomar), Sweden (Nirstedt/litteratur), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Siltala), Korea (Bokbok Seoga), Japan (Hakusuisha), Poland (Prószyński), Czech Republic (Akropolis), Hungary (Park), Bulgaria (Janet45), Romania (Humanitas), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Booka), Slovenia (Beletrina), Turkey (CAN), Greece (Vakxikon), North Macedonia (Bata Press)

DISCOVER

News

Maria Stepanova

PUBLICATIONS

Disappearing Act

Holy Winter 20/21

The Body Returns

Girls Without Clothes

In Memory of Memory

DISCOVER

Maria Stepanova awarded Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2023

Maria Stepanova awarded Prix du Meilleur livre étranger 2022

Judith Schalansky and Maria Stepanova shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2021