Galina, Maria Semenovna

Born on November 10, 1958 in Kalinin (now Tver). Until 1968 she lived in Kiev , then in Odessa . She graduated from the Faculty of Biology of Odessa University and graduate school with a degree in hydrobiology , ichthyology . In a short autobiographical preface to the novel “Farewell, my angel” ( ISBN 5-17-014318-4 ), she wrote that she considered herself an Odessa woman.

Since 1987, lives in Moscow . Candidate of biological sciences, worked at the Research Institute of Hydrobiology, in 1994, under a contract, at the University of Bergen ( Norway ), where she worked on environmental problems and the study of salmon fish populations . Since 1995, she left science, becoming a professional writer.

The first poems were published in the Odessa newspaper Antarctica; the debut publication in the central press - in the journal " Youth " in 1990. In 1997, under the pseudonym Maxim Golitsyn, published her first science-fiction novel, "Time of the Vanquished." In 2002-2003, there were three books of fantastic prose under his own name: “A Coverlet for Avaddon ”, “Farewell, My Angel” and “Wolf Star”. The story "Coverlet for Avaddon" was included in the short list of the prize to them. Apollo Grigoriev , awarded by the Academy of Russian Contemporary Literature ^[2] .

Member of the Union of Writers of Moscow . Maria Galina wrote many articles published in Literaturnaya Gazeta (where she worked from 1998 to 2001, led a fiction strip and a poetic column entitled Non-stop Poetry), and the New World and Znamya magazines. She also collaborated with the magazines “ If ”, “ Supernova Fantasy ”, “ Literary Issues ”, “The Reality of Fantasy ” by the ExLibris and Izvestia newspapers, etc. At the beginning of the 2000s she collaborated with the Publishing House Forum as the editor-compiler of the intellectual series science fiction "The Other Side ", also for several years was the chief editor of the book digest " Biblio-Globus ". Repeatedly included in the jury of genre awards, in particular, in the expert council of the Big Book award and the jury of the Debut literary prize (2007) ^[3] . As a critic, she is known mainly for publications on science fiction and poetry. At present, she is the editor of the criticism and journalism department of the New World magazine, the host of the Fiction / Futurology heading (up to 2015), and the leading head of Hyperfiction since 2015.

She translated prose of English-language authors, including Stephen King , Jack Vance , Edwin Tabb , Clive Barker , Peter Straub , as well as poems by modern Ukrainian and British poets.

Maria Galina's prose has been translated into Italian , English , Polish and Ukrainian ; poetry has been translated into English, Slovak, Slovenian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Latvian, etc.

Poetry

• I see the light: Poems. - Odessa: Kotovskaya city printing house, 1993.
• Signal Fire: Poems. - M .: SPM, 1994.
• No Earth: Poems. - M .: Journal of poetry "Arion", 2005.
• On two legs: Fourth book of verses. - M.: ARGO-RISK, Book Review, 2009.
• Letters of water girls. - NY: Ailuros Publishing, 2012.
• All about Lisa. - M .: Time, 2013.

Prose

• Time of the vanquished: Roman. - M .: EKSMO-Press, 1997 (under the pseudonym Maxim Golitsyn).
• Gladiators of the Night: Novel. - M.: EKSMO, 1997 (under the pseudonym Maxim Golitsyn).
• “All Sources of the Abyss”: Roman. - M.: EKSMO-Press, 1999 (under the pseudonym Maxim Golitsyn).
• Cover for Avaddon: A Tale. - M .: Text, 2002.
• Goodbye my angel: Tales. - M .: AST, 2002.
• Wolf Star: Roman. - M .: Machaon, 2003; M .: AST, 2015.
• Looking out of the dark. Chronicles of Leonard Kalganov, ethnographer: Roman. - M .: Eksmo, 2004 (under the pseudonym Maxim Golitsyn).
• Givi and Shenderovich: Roman. - M .: Bridges of culture; Jerusalem: Gesharim, 2004.
• Hamsters in Eglador: Roman. - M.: Forum, 2006.
• Beach at Night: Tales and Stories. - M.: Forum, 2007.
• Little Glusha: Novel. - M .: Eksmo, 2009.
• Red Wolves, Red Geese: Tales and Stories. - M .: Eksmo, 2010.
• Bears: Roman ^[4] . - M .: Eksmo, 2011.
• Chicken God: Tales and Stories. - M .: AST, 2013.
• Autochtones: Roman. - M .: AST, 2015, 2016.

Fiction

• I know the world: Treasures of the Earth. - M .: AST, Astrel, 2001, 2004, 2007 (under the pseudonym M.S. Golitsyn).
• 1000 questions about animal life. - M .: AST, Astrel, 2002 (in co-authorship with M. Kornilova).
• Continents. - M.: Olma Media Group, 2008 (in collaboration with M. Kornilova).
• Seas and oceans. - M.: Olma Media Group, 2008.
• Fish. - M.: Olma Media Group, 2008.
• Fiction through the eyes of a biologist. - Lipetsk: Mole, 2008.
• Not only about science fiction. - Ivanovo: Favorite, 2013.

• 2003 - The Silver Caduceus of the Star Bridge for critical articles and reviews.
• 2004 - Diploma of the magazine “ If ” (readership award) for the article “In Search of a Miracle” (co-author Vitaliy Kaplan ).
• 2005 - Diploma of the magazine " If " for the article "Non-existent creatures."
• 2005 - “ Portal ” for the novel “ Givi and Shenderovich ”.
• 2006 - “ Anthologia ” and “ Moscow bill ” for the book of poems “ Earth ” ^[5] .
• 2007 - “ Marble Faun ” for the story “Octopus”.
• 2008 - “ Bronze snail ” for the story “Guide”.
• 2008 - “The Marble Faun” for the story “The Story of the Second Brother”.
• 2009 - “Silver Caduceus” of “Star Bridge” for the novel “ Little Glusha ”.
• 2009 - The Golden Roscon for the article Farewell to Innocence.
• 2009 - “Small Filigree ” for the story “Smugglers”.
• 2009 - “Portal” and “Marble Faun” for the story “In the Floodplains”.
• 2009 - “Marble Faun” for the story “Little Glusha” (the second part of the novel of the same name).
• 2010 - “Portal”, Book of the Year according to Fantlaba and Marble Faun for the novel Little Glusha .
• 2011 - “Bronze snail” for the story “Welcome to a beautiful country!”.
• 2011 - “Marble Faun” for the story “Underground Sea”.
• 2011 - “ Big Zilant ” for the novel “ Hamsters in the Eglador ”.
• 2012 - “ Wanderer ” in the nomination “Unusual idea”, “ Filigree ”, second prize of reading sympathies of the “ Big Book ”, “Book of the Year” according to “Fantlaba” and “Marble Faun” for the novel “ Bears ”.
• 2012 - “Portal” for the article “There was a word at the end”.
• 2013 - “Portal” for the story “Chicken God”.
• 2013 - “Portal” for the story “Rigel”.
• 2014 - Stalker (Estonia) for the best translated story (“In the Floodplains”)
• 2014 - “Moscow Account” for the novel in verses “Everything about Lisa”
• 2016 - Norah Gal Shortlist Award for “Best Short Translation from English into Russian” of Iron Man ( Ted Hughes )
• 2016 - Filigree for the novel Autochtones.

•   - Galina, Maria Semenovna in LiveJournal
• Galina, Maria Semenovna in the " Journal Hall "
• Galina, Maria Semenovna on the site " A new map of Russian literature "
• Galina, Maria Semyonovna on the site " Science Fiction Laboratory "
• Galina Maria Semenovna in the “Fantasy Archive” (© Vladimir Vilchinsky, Vitaliy Karatsupa)
• Vladimir Puziy . "Humanity is on the verge of amazing discoveries." Conversation with Maria Galina // World of Fantasy . - 2010, December. - No. 88 .
• Review of books by M. Galina in the journal “People of the Book in the World of Books”
• Conversation with M. Galina on the DARKER website