KATERLI Nina

Nina Katerli (by her husband - Efros) was born June 30, 1934 in Leningrad in a family of journalists. Mother, Helen losifovna Katerli, subsequently became a prose writer, and was fairly well known in the 50-ies. She died in 1958.
Katerli - Polish name. Maternal grandfather, Joseph (Jozef) Katerli came from a poor aristocratic Polish family, received the Russian nobility in the 700-Tide years after the accession of Poland to Russia.
. Father - Farfel Semen Samoilovich, journalist, member of the Writers' Union, died in 1985
. My father was a hereditary journalist, his father, a famous reporter of the newspaper "Rech" press coverage of the work of the State Council of pre-revolutionary Russia.
Nina Katerli graduated in 1958 Institute of Technology. Leningrad City Council and about 15 years worked as an engineer chemical engineer.
Write prose began in the late sixties. The first publication in 1973. The story "Welcome" printed in the journal "Fire".
. The first book, a collection of short stories "Window" - in 1981, publishing house "Soviet writer", Leningrad.
. Collection "Color postcard" -1986 year, "Soviet writer", Leningrad.
. Compilation "Kursaal" -1990 year, "Soviet writer"
. Collection Sennaya Square "- in 1992, publishing house" Pozisoft ", St. Petersburg. "Claim" - a documentary novel, 1998, Samara Publishing House. The story "The Return" - "Star" N4 1998.
. The novel "One World" is printed in the 2 nd and 3 rd numbers for 1999, the magazine "Star", forthcoming publication of the book.
. Besides books there are a large number of journal publications of short stories and novels, many of which were translated into foreign languages and come from overseas: the United States, France, Germany, Japan, China, Hungary, Czech Republic, etc.
. A great place in the life of Nina Katerli along with the literary work is advocacy, it has written and published dozens of newspaper articles devoted to the struggle for human rights, the Nazi threat in Russia, the situation of the elderly, etc.
. The result of one anti-fascist article "The Road to the monuments," published in 1988 in the newspaper Leningradskaya Pravda, was a two-year trial of the suit to Nina Katerli author of the "anti-Zionist book" A. Romanenko, which Katerli accused of anti-Semitism and Nazism. The process ended in failure Romanenko from a lawsuit.
Today H. Katerli member of the Writers 'Union of St. Petersburg, a member of the St. Petersburg Russian PEN, a member of the editorial boards of the journals' World of speech "," Reading Russia, "" Barrier "and the newspaper" Literary News ".
. Vital and creative credo: to live and not write a lie and do the maximum that dictates of conscience.
. Family: Husband Michael G. Efros, . Researcher, . Director of Research of the Institute of abrasives and grinding, . President, Association of manufacturers of abrasives, daughter Elena Efros-journalist, . son Alexander Efros - entrepreneur.,