Early life and education Katerina Clark was born on 20 June 1941 at Mosgiel Private Hospital in
Surrey Hills, Victoria, daughter of historian
Manning Clark and linguist
Dymphna Clark. She spent several periods during her postgraduate career in the
Soviet Union, including a brief stay at
Moscow State University while at ANU and several visits to Moscow as part of her PhD.
Academic career In 1981, Clark published the book
The Soviet Novel, which Vera Sandomirsky Dunham called "a brave and intelligent study of the Soviet novel"; In 1986, she and her husband co-authored
Mikhail Bakhtin, a study of the
Russian scholar of the same name, and she was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of the intellectual life of
Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad, 1913–1931"; this later became her 1998 book
Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution. She also won the 1996
Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize. Clark and Dobrenko were co-editors of
Soviet Culture and Power, a 2005 volume in
Yale University Press'
Annals of Communism Series. She was awarded the 2008
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Award for Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship. By the 2010s, her research had shifted towards the Soviet regime's
interwar period approach towards
Eurasianism. She won the 2021
Matei Calinescu Prize for her book
Eurasia without Borders.
Personal life and death Clark married Holquist in 1974, and they had two sons. Clark died on 1 February 2024, after a year and a half of suffering from
lymphoma, aged 82. Her younger brother Andrew wrote her
Sydney Morning Herald obituary. ==Bibliography==