Natalya Baranskaya
Natalya Vladimirovna Baranskaya (; January 31, 1908 – October 29, 2004) was a Soviet writer of short stories and novellas. Baranskaya wrote her stories in Russian and gained international recognition for her realistic portrayal of Soviet women's daily lives. Biography Baranskaya was born in 1908 in St. Petersurg, Russia. She graduated in 1929 from Moscow State University with degrees in philology and ethnology. She became a war widow in 1943, when her husband died in World War II. She had two children and never married again. She did post-graduate work on the side while raising her children and pursuing a career as a museum professional. She worked at the Literary Museum and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. She began writing stories after she retired from the museum in 1966, and her first story was published in 1968 in the Russian literary magazine Novy Mir. She died in 2004 in Moscow, Russia. Published works Baranskaya's most famous work is "A Week Like Any Other," a novella first published in Novy Mir in 1969. This story earned her international recognition. It was published in the American magazine Redbook in 1971 under the title "Alarm Clock in the Cupboard," translated into English by