Playwright Ksenia Dragunskaya passed away

As the writer Denis Dragunsky reported on social networks, his younger sister Ksenia died on July 1 at 11.30 from a sudden serious illness.

Ksenia Dragunskaya was born on December 20, 1965 in Moscow. She graduated from VGIK, her first play "Apple Thief" she presented in 1994 at the festival of young drama "Lyubimovka". She has written more than three dozen plays staged in Russia and abroad, including The Land of October, The Apple Thief, The Secret of the Russian Camembert Lost Forever, Forever, Edith Piaf. My legionnaire".

According to Vesti.ru, in the world of literature, Ksenia Dragunskaya is known as the author of the books "Kolokolnikov-Podkolokolny" (included in the long list of the Big Book 2017 award, in the short list of the Yasnaya Polyana 2017 award), Angels and Pioneers (laureate of the All-Russian Festival of the Children's Book), "Big Fur Dad", "Jumping Cutlet", "Male Education", etc.

Dragunskaya wrote a lot for children, her works were published in the magazines "Contemporary Drama", "Playwright", "Plots", "Cinema Art", "New World", "October" "Friendship of Peoples".

Since 2010, Ksenia Dragunskaya has been the chairman of the Drama Commission of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia and was a member of the Russian Pen-Center.

According to Interfax, in 2017, Ksenia Dragunskaya was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation for her great services in the development of Russian culture and art. In 2019, she was awarded a medal of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, II degree for her great contribution to the development of national culture and art, and many years of fruitful activity.