Zhukova, Alena

Born in Odessa. She worked at the Odessa film studio as a music editor, editor, member of the scenario board and editor-in-chief of the Arcadia Creative Association.

Since 1994, lives in Toronto ^[1] .

Author and co-author of film scripts:

• “Wild Love” (1993)
• “Marshmallows in Chocolate” (1994).
• Jury member of the International Film Club Federation (representative from Canada) at MIFF-32 and MIFF-33
• Representative of Russia at the International Canadian Film Festival Gimli Film Festival 2008
• Program Director, Vice President of the Toronto Russian Film Festival (TRFF) from 2010 to the present ^[2] .

Editor-in-chief of the Canadian literary magazine "New World" ^[3] . Coordinator and member of the jury of the literary prize named after E. Hemingway and the All-Canada children's literary contest "We write and speak Russian." The official representative of Nikita Mikhalkov’s magazine “Svoy”. In 2009, in the Publishing House of Nikita Mikhalkov, “The Siberian Barber”, a short prose book “Why Marina's Apples Dreamed” was published ^[4] . Then this book was published in October 2010 in the publishing house EKSMO (Moscow) in the section Modern prose and dramaturgy in the category “Simple Things” ^[5] . The book was praised by critics. The opening address was written by the famous writer, laureate of many literary prizes - Lyudmila Ulitskaya ^{[6] [7]} . In 2011, the EKSMO publishing house (Moscow) released the novel “Duet for Solitude”, which was included in the long list of the Russian Prize 2011 ^{[8] [9]} . In the same year, Alena Zhukova became the laureate of the prize of the magazine “Children of Ra” in the nomination “Prose” ^[10] . In 2014, her story appeared in the collection “Hello, Doctor! Notes of patients ” ^[11] . In 2016, the Ripol Classic Publishing House published the book The Secret Sign ^[12]

Alyona Zhukova collaborates with many magazines and newspapers both in Canada and the USA, Russia and Ukraine: “New Yenisei Literator” (Russia), Children Ra (Russia), “Lights over Biya” (Russia), “ Lights of Kuzbass ” ( Russia), “Topos”, Severo-Mu’s lights , “New Nemiga Literary” (Belarus), “Metamorphoses” (Belarus), “Port Folio” (Canada), gray portal “Megalit”, “Canadian Courier” (Canada) , “Russian Info Toronto” (Canada), “TV Guide” (Canada), “BFK” (Canada), “Our Canada” (Canada), “Word / Word” (USA), “ New Russian Word ” (USA) , “Svoy” (Russia), “Topos” (Russia), “Five Elements” (Ukraine), "Odessa Herald" (Ukraine) and others.

• Alena Zhukova. "Secret sign." - M .: Ripol Classic, 2016 - 400 p. - 2000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-386-08913-9 .
• "Hello, Doctor! Patient Notes. ” - SPb. : Astrel-SPb, 2014 - 352 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-17-081967-6 .
• Alena Zhukova. "Duet for loneliness." - M .: Eksmo, 2011 - 256 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-699-47215-4 .
• Alena Zhukova. "Why did Marina dream apples?" - M .: Eksmo, 2010 - 352 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-699-45038-1 .

• Prize to them. Abay for the novel “Duet for Solitude” (2018) ^[13]
• Literary Prize named after de Richelieu, “The Diamond Duke” for the novel “Duet for Solitude” (2017) ^[14]
• Literary Prize named after Panteleimon Kulish (2017) ^[15]
• Benjamin Blessed Literary Prize (Belarus, 2015)
• Literary Prize named after N.V. Gogol's “Triumph” (Ukraine, 2015)
• Grant from the Canadian Department of Culture for the script for the short film Essential Part of the Face (Canada, 1996)
• Commemorative Medal of A. P. Chekhov “For achievements in literary creation” (Russia, 2011)
• The long list of the Russian Prize literary prize - the novel Duet for Solitude, 2012.
• Winner of the 21st Century Writers' Union Prize. The magazine "Children of RA", 2011.

• Alena Zhukova: “We must live, and everything else will follow”