Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ???????, born February 21, 1943) is an internationally acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer who, in 2014, was awarded the prestigious Austrian State Prize for European Literature for her oeuvre.
In 2006 she published Daniel Stein, Interpreter (??????? ?????, ??????????), a novel dealing with the Holocaust and the need for reconciliation between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Ulitskaya herself belongs to a group of people formed by the realities of the former Soviet Union, who see themselves ethnically and culturally as Jews, while having adopted Christianity as their religion.