Anna A. Suvorova (born 11 January 1949 in Moscow) is a Russian orientalist and art critic. She is bilingual in Russian and Urdu.

Biography

Suvorova is the Head of the Department of Asian Literature at the Institute of Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences), Professor of Indo-Islamic culture at the Institute of Oriental and classical cultures (Russian State University for the Humanities), member of the International faculty in National College of Arts (Pakistan), fellow of Academic Advisory Board, Centre for Study of Gender and Culture (Pakistan), fellow of Royal Asiatic Society (UK). Areas of professional interest: South-Asian premodern literature, Islam in the Indian Subcontinent, Sufism, South-Asian performing and visual arts. For her contribution to the research of Pakistani literature and cultural heritage she has been conferred one of the highest state awards of Pakistan — Sitara-i-Imtiaz.

Selected works