Nella Bielski

Biography

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.Source: Article "Nella Bielski" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.