Nella Bielski
{{Short description|Ukrainian-born French writer and actress (died 2020)}}
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Nella Bielski (1930s – 4 November 2020) was a Ukrainian-born French writer and actress.
Bielski was born in Ukraine in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and died on 4 November 2020 in Antony a suburb of Paris. She studied philosophy at Moscow State University. In the early 1960s she met a French journalist, married him and was allowed to leave the Soviet Union for France.
Bielski acted in films. In 1970 her first novel Voronej appeared in French. After that she wrote a number of novels, also translated into English, including Oranges for the Son of Alexander Levy and The Year is '42.
She collaborated on a number of plays with one of her regular English translators John Berger, including A Question of Geography, which was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
External links
- [http://www.babelio.com/auteur/Nella-Bielski/60219 Nella Bielski on Babelio]
- [http://www.johncaird.com/theatre/a_question_of_geography.html A Question of Geography]
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Category:French women novelists
Category:French film actresses
Category:French people of Ukrainian descent
Category:Moscow State University alumni
Category:Soviet emigrants to France
Category:20th-century French actresses
Category:20th-century French non-fiction writers
Category:21st-century French non-fiction writers
Category:20th-century French women writers
Category:21st-century French women writers
Category:Ukrainian women writers
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