born 1975 in St Petersburg; studied book illustration and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. She then trained as a cartoon animator and worked in a film cartoon studio. She has lived in Hamburg since 1998, where she attended Rüdiger Stoye’s illustration classes at the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung. Her debut, Zwei Schwestern bekommen Besuch [Two Sisters Have A Visitor] is the extended version of Sonja Bougaeva’s university dissertation.

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