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Hear Schwartz Read from White Guard at BookPeople

By mbs | Published: October 14, 2008

At left, the author of White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) I’ll be reading from my new translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel White Guard at 7 pm on Friday, November 7th, at BookPeople.  BookPeople is located at 603 North Lamar, at the corner of 6th & Lamar, right across the street from Waterloo Records. I hope [...]

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Tolstoy translator: “This was a mammoth task”

By mbs | Published: October 7, 2008

Alison Flood speaks to Tolstoy translator Kyril Zinovieff about his new sixty-year-old translation of Anna Karenina in a Guardian Books podcast.

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Reading the World Conversation Series, Wednesday, October 1, 2008

By mbs | Published: September 29, 2008

I’m going to be featured in this Translators Roundtable, discussing obstacles and opportunities related to literary translation. The roundtable also includes Edward Gauvin, translator of French graphic novels filmscripts; Michael Emmerich, translator of young Japanese writers; and Martha Tennent, who translates Catalan literature. This event is free and open to the public. Reading the World [...]

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