Luba Jurgenson[note 1] (born 1 July 1958) is a French-speaking woman of letters.
She is also a translator, a maître de conférences and codirector (with Anne Coldefy-Faucard) of the series "Poustiaki" at éditions Verdier [fr].
[1] Her novel Au lieu du péril (2014) earned her the Prix Valery Larbaud in 2015.
She was born in Moscow, then-USSR[2] and is of Estonian origin and Russian culture,[3] but emigrated to Paris in 1975 at age 16.
[4] After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Jurgenson made anti-war appeals in the French media: "Il faut porter la cause de l’Ukraine à l’Assemblée nationale".