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