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“Intense Lyricism” of Slavnikova’s 2017

Karen Vanuska, in her “writer's journal of her reading and writing life,” has posted a flattering review of my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017: It wouldn't be summer if I didn't pick up a Russian novel.  Though I received my review copy of 2017 by Olga Slavnikova back in March, I decided to save it for [...]

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Slavnikova’s 2017 at barnesandnoblereview.com

Anna Mundow gives a glowing review of my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017 at barnesandnoblereview.com: Olga Slavnikova’s profound new novel 2017 evokes, with uncanny vividness, a Russia of the near-future in which a character reasonably wonders  “…how much about human beings is human?” . . . To read the rest, click here.

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Publishers Weekly Gives Moscow Noir a Star

PW has given Moscow Noir (Akashic Books) a starred review and mentions Anuchkin’s “Field of a Thousand Corpses,” one of several I translated for the anthology: As literary agents Smirnova and Goumen note in their introduction to this excellent entry in Akashic's noir series, “A noir tradition does not yet really exist in Russia.” Still, they [...]

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Behind the Line

Thanks to Kyle Semmel of the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, who has posted an interview with me about Russian literature, Olga Slavnikova’s 2017, and how I translate.

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Squaring the Circle

Glas has just published Squaring the Circle: Short Stories by Winners of the Debut Prize, compiled by Olga Slavnikova: This anthology presents Russian prose by a new generation. The authors, who come from various parts of Russia, never lived in the Soviet Union. They are free of the Soviet legacy. They have no nostalgia and do [...]

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2017, by Olga Slavnikova

  2017 By Olga Slavnikova Translated by Marian Schwartz Overlook Press, 2010   In a translation funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and executed to perfection by prize-winning translator Marian Schwartz, 2017 is part literary romance, part political thriller, and a stunning tale of adventure, fantasy and obsession. Set in the near future, on the [...]

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