Elena Chudinova

Elena Chudinova
Born	Elena Petrovna Chudinova (1959-09-03)3 September 1959 Moscow, USSR
Occupation	Poet, novelist, publicist, broadcaster, playwright
Language	Russian, French
Nationality	Russian
Period	Since 1970
Genre	Novel, essay, column, poem, drama
Notable works	The Notre Dame de Paris Mosque
Relatives	Petr Konstantinovich Chudinov, Inna Ivanovna Chudinova

Elena Petrovna Chudinova (Russian: Елена Петровна Чудинова; born 3 September 1959) is a Russian writer, poet, publicist, and playwright.

Biography

Elena Chudinova was born in Moscow in the family of paleontologists Petr Konstantinovich Chudinov and his wife Inna Ivanovna Chudinova. According to her own admission, she started writing Russian history-themed poetry in 1970, but published a small part of it for the first time only in 2013 as an appendix to her novel Keeper of the Sign. Chudinova is the author of the novels Keeper of the Sign, written before the perestroika about the Russian Civil War, Nefert about ancient Egypt, the historical fantasy trilogy about the Saburov Russian-French noble family (Jewelry Box, Fleur-de-lis, and December Without Christmas), children's books A History of England for Children and Gardarika, and the play The Comedy of an Inkwell about the times of Catherine the Great.

Her most famous work is the 2005 dystopian novel The Notre Dame de Paris Mosque, which generated a great deal of worldwide controversy. The novel was awarded the annual Bastkon prize for science fiction in 2006 by the Russian literary group Bastion. The Notre Dame de Paris Mosque was published in France, Serbia, Poland, Bulgaria, and as a pirated version in Turkey. It was also translated into English and Norwegian and is awaiting publication in the United States. The novel was the target of criticism by Muslims and liberals and seized a wide popularity in the conservative circles of France.

As a publicist, Chudinova published four anthologies of articles dealing with politics and culture. She was a columnist for the Russian Expert magazine in 2007-2012. From 2010 to the present, she hosts her own weekly program called Author's Hour on Russian Orthodox Christian Radonezh radio.

Bibliography

• . Published in 2005 (two editions), 2006, 2011, 2012.
• . Also published in 2003, 2005, 2006.
• . Also published in 2006 and 2013.

Sources

• Eugene Girin and Srdja Trifkovic. The Future of Russia and the West: a Conversation with Elena Chudinova, the Chronicles magazine, April 22, 2014.
• Eugene Girin, Elena Chudinova: Telling the Truth Archived 2014-12-17 at the Wayback Machine, the Chronicles magazine, May 1, 2014.
• Eugene Girin, Elena Chudinova on the Fall of Europe, the Chronicles magazine, May 28, 2014.
• Elena Chudinova's articles on the Chronicles magazine web site, 2014.
• Eugene Girin, Muslim Terrorism in Paris, Michel Houellebecq's Cowardice, and the Islamization of France: An Interview with Russian writer Elena Choudinova, author of The Notre Dame de Paris Mosque, the Chronicles magazine, January 12, 2015.