- Her journey in literature began in 1977 with a publication in the magazine "Siberian Lights.
- She joined the Gorky Literary Institute, where she studied under Viktor Rozov and Inna Vishnevskaya.
- Sadur is the author of scripts for films and TV series, including "Taxi Driver", "Rostov-Papa", "I am You".
- She was a member of the Russian PEN Center , but left in protest.
- In 1999, director Kirill Serebrennikov shot the series "Swallow" based on Sadur's play "The Caught Swallow.".
- The first play "Wonderful Woman" was staged by the Moscow State University Student Theater. Later, productions based on Sadur's works were staged at Lenkom, the Ermolova Theater, and the Benefis Drama Theater.
- Sadur's literary prowess was recognized globally, with her works resonating with elements of avant-garde, postmodernism, Russian absurdism, and magical realism.
- In 1989, Sadur published a full-fledged collection of plays, "The Wonderful Woman." At the same time, Sadur became a member of the USSR Writers' Union.
- Her portfolio expanded beyond plays to include works such as 'Caught Swallow,' 'Group of Comrades,' 'Brother Chichikov,' and 'In Memory of Pechorin.' These works enjoyed recognition both in Russia and internationally, with publications in a host of countries, including Finland, England, Germany, Slovakia, and Japan.
- Nina Sadur has gained fame abroad. Thus, in Sweden in the early 1990s, the play "Wonderful Woman" was played on the radio, and the play "Red Paradise" became a sensation among the Stockholm public.
- Sadur attended the Sixth All-Union Conference for Young Dramatists at the House of Writers in Dubolty, Latvia and studied at the Faculty of Library Science of the Moscow Institute of Culture.
- At the beginning of her creative career, not yet being Rozov's favorite student , in order to earn a living, she had to get a job washing floors in one of the capital's theaters.
- According to a source published in 1994, Sadur was living in a communal apartment in Moscow with her mother and daughter.
- Today, many of her works are considered Russian drama classics and are included in Russian theater textbooks.
- Her breakthrough came with her play 'Wonderful Woman' in 1981, earning her international acclaim. This success was a precursor to a literary journey that saw the staging of her plays in prominent Russian theaters, including the Lenkom Theater, the Sphere Theater, the Vakhtangov Theater, and the School of Dramatic Art in Moscow.
- In 1997, Sadur received the Znamya magazine literary prize for her novel 'The German,' lauded for its in-depth exploration of modern reality.
- In 1999, Christine D. Tomei described a hallmark of Sadur's work as being "a strong interest in the everyday details of Soviet life.".
- She began writing in the late 1970s and began publishing in 1977 - her first publication took place in the Siberian Lights magazine.
- In 2014, Sadur was among the writers and cultural figures who supported the annexation of Crimea. She participated in the 2016 literary festival in Sevastopol.
- N. Sadur's creative style is defined in different ways. The playwright is often classified as avant-garde (M. I. Gromova), postmodernism (N. L. Leiderman and M. N. Lipovetsky), Russian absurdism (B. S. Bugrov, I. A. Kanunnikova), magical realism (E. V. Starchenko). Sadur herself, despite controversial opinions about her talent, considered herself the most conservative writer in Russia.
- Sadur has described her style as being the "realm of the illusory" or "magical realism." Her influences include Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Ray Bradbury, and Clifford Simak.
- She wanted to become an entomologist but decided to pursue literature instead when she decided that dissecting insects went against her love of the natural world.
- In 1994, Melissa T. Smith described Sadur's work: "Her prose works, in which narrative perspective is subject to abrupt shifts between internal and external, first and third persons, present a dark vision of contemporary reality. The everyday world, byt, is not the ground of existence, but a thin veil behind which the reader quickly discovers a lurking 'other' - the struggle of good and evil, black magic and Orthodox Christianity.
- Sadur wrote short stories and plays while working as a cleaner at the Pushkin Theatre to support herself.
- In 2014, Sadur published The Witching Hour and Other Plays.[5] Middlebury professor Thomas R. Beyer characterized the work as "leading us into the darkness of the human spirit as the Russian literature of Gogol and Dostoevsky has so often done." The Times Literary Supplement wrote about the book, "Sadur's plays are discomforting; they uproot certainties, allowing deep and ugly forces to disrupt the strained surface of Soviet life.".
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