Daria Wilke was born in Moscow in 1976, and drew on her childhood
while writing PLAYING A PART, as she grew up in a family of
puppeteers. She now works at the University of Vienna in
Austria.
Marian Schwartz is an award-winning translator of classic and
contemporary Russian literature. She is the recipient of two
National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowships and is a
past president of the American Literary Translators Association.
She studied Russian at Harvard University, Middlebury Russian
School, and Leningrad State University, and received a master's
from the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Austin, Texas.
Advance praise for Playing A Part"A devastatingly affecting portrait of a boy on a quest to find pride in his queerness, in a society where there is no bigger danger than not measuring up as a man." -- Bill Konigsberg, award-winning author of Openly Straight and Out of the Pocket"Russia may seem a world away, but Daria Wilke's beautiful novel brings home the fact that in matters of the heart, we are very close indeed." -- James Lecesne, co-founder of The Trevor Project and editor of THE LETTER Q
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