Charlotte Adelaide Hobson (born 1970) is an English writer.
Her memoir Black Earth City (2002), which recounts living in Russia in the early 1990s, won the Somerset Maugham Award.
[2][3] Following her mother's death from cancer, Hobson continued her Russian studies at Edinburgh University.
[4] As part of her degree program, she spent a year abroad in the Russian city of Voronezh in 1991–1992.
Her experiences of living in Russia in the earliest phase of its post-Soviet transition became the subject of her travel memoir Black Earth City.