Two Words features Yuzefovich, Life Stories

Two Words: The Blog of the Center for the Art of Translation—CAT, located in San Francisco, being one of this country’s most innovative and impressive organizations focusing on literary translation—has run a flattering post on me and the new anthology Life Stories, which benefits hospice care in Russia.  For the anthology I translated Leonid Yuzefovich’s “The Storm,” about a group of young schoolchildren who endure a stressful class about traffic safety.  In the end, lightning strikes. Yuzefovich is a historian who first became known for his biography of R.F. Ungern-Sternberg, the "Dictator of Mongolia," but became famous with his historical thrillers about Ivan Putilin, the first volume of which became a TV mini-series and the third of which received the National Bestseller Award.