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grozny , north caucasus 20 march 1985 russian , chechen thumbnail polina zherebtsova
 polina zherebtsova novelist , journalist
polina zherebtsova

polina zherebtsova -lrb- , march 20 , 1985 , grozny , ussr -rrb- a documentarian , poet and author of the famous diaries `` ant in a glass jar '' , covering her childhood , adolescence and youth that witnessed three chechen wars .
since 2002 , she has begun to work as a journalist .
she is a member of pen international and the union of journalists of russia .
she has been awarded the janusz korczak international prize in jerusalem in two categories -lrb- narrative and documentary prose -rrb- .
in 2012 , she was awarded the andrei sakharov award `` for journalism as an act of conscience '' .
she was born in a mixed ethnic family in grozny , chechen-ingush autonomous republic , ussr .
since 2013 she has received a political asylum in finland .
author of the report on war crimes in chechnya in 1994-2004 .
ru .
eng .
polina began keeping her diary when she was 9 years old , at the start of the first chechen war .
she was still living in grozny when the second chechen war began .
on october 21 , 1999 , the market in grozny where she was helping her mother sell newspapers was shelled , and polina was moderately wounded .
politkovskaya described war as a journalist from the outside in .
polina zherebtsova writes about war from inside the heart of darkness .
der spiegel № 10 / 2015 .
`` ant in a glass jar .
chechen diaries of 1994 -- 2004 '' has been translated into ukrainian , slovenian , french , lithuanian , finnish , german , georgian , and chechen .
polina zherebtsova has given interviews to the bbc , the guardian , reuters , has participated in literary festivals around the world .
she has always offered publishing rights for translations of all of her books by herself , without the use of services of literary agents .
