Bennett, Vanora

VANORA BENNETT is the author of six novels, including Midnight in St. Petersburg and her much-heralded fiction debut, Portrait of an Unknown Woman. She has also written two works of non-fiction. She studied Russian at the University of Oxford and in the USSR, then began her career as a journalist at Reuters and went on to serve as the Moscow correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. She has won the Orwell Prize for political writing for her work at The Times (London) and an Overseas Press Club of America award for her writing on Russia. She lives in London, U.K.

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