Lines of Fate won the Russian Booker Prize by beating out the contributions of much better known authors like Vladimir Makanin and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya.
Critical response to Tokareva has been varied, with some Russian critics dismissing her as just another female writer, and critics abroad seeing her as a non-feminist writer less talented than the other popular female Russian writers: Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Tatyana Tolstaya, and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya | Lyudmila Zykina | Lyudmila Petrushevskaya | Lyudmila Maksakova | Lyudmila Zhuravlyova | Lyudmila Tselikovskaya | Lyudmila Titova | Lyudmila Khazieva |