1919, Kyiv. A silver femur, a German tailor, mysterious fabric patterns, a priest-turned policeman, a student-turned detective with a severed ear – and a city of 500,000 people l
From what I understand, you are perfectly trilingual, in Ukrainian, Russian and English. You and your family moved to Los Angeles when you were eight years old. Did you speak any E
I don’t like poetry as a genre. There. I’ve said it. So sue me. I don’t get it. Moreover, I live in Norwich, where you’re served poetry for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And
In the 19th century Russia gave us some of the world’s greatest novelists and short story writers, the outstanding Men of Letters primarily from the golden cities of Moscow and S
Oliver Ready is Research Fellow in Russian Society and Culture at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is Consultant Editor for Russia, Central and Eastern Europe at the Times Liter
James Rann is a Teaching Fellow in Russian at the University of Birmingham and formerly an editor of The Calvert Journal. His translations include a story collection and fantasy
Boris Dralyuk is a literary translator. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years. He has also tau
Anna Gunin is the co-translator of Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich. Among her translations are Oleg Pavlov’s award-winning Requiem for a Soldier and Mikail Eldin’s war
An expert insight into translating Russian literature today How does a translator begin and end a novel with panache, and still retain the gripping effect of the original opening s
Monday 5 October 2015 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA Pushkin Press has commissioned Boris Dralyuk to edit an anthology (working ti
