The fine literary journal Subtropics has accepted my translation of Vsevolod Benigsen’s “Movsar and the Terrorists,” for publication. The story appeared in Benigsen’s 2011 collection, Pzkhfchshch!
Literalab, a blog about “Central European literary life,” has done a smart review of my translation of Andrei Gelasimov’s “Thirst,” the first to point out that this is a book about the making of an artist: In Thirst Gelasimov manages to get at the essence of making art and what it means to see the [...]
AmazonCrossing is releasing an audio book of my translation of Andrei Gelasimov’s novel Thirst, unabridged and narrated by Luke Daniels. Look for it here.
Konstantin Boulich reports on my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s novel 2017 for Voice of Russia: Thanks to a superb translation by Marian Schwartz, Olga Slavnikova’s dystopian novel “2017”, arguably the writer’s most important work today is now available in English. I talk to Marian Schwartz about the joys and challenges of translating Slavnikova’s rich and [...]
Phoebe Taplin has given Olga Slavnikova’s 2017 (now published in the UK as well, by Duckworth) a wonderful review in the January 5, 2012, “Russia Now” supplement to the London Telegraph, calling it “an ambitious, postmodern contribution to a revered literary tradition” and the translation “luminous.” Read the rest here.
Fr. Grant Barber has written an insightful review for the Three Percent blog of my translation of Andrei Gelasimov’s short novel Thirst (published by AmazonCrossing): Gelasimov embraces the “show, don’t tell” dictum effectively throughout this short novel from the unique start. The first person narrator, later identified as Constantine or Kostya, has just returned to [...]
The graphics used on this site were inspired by the work of Liubov Popova (1889-1924), a Russian artist and designer influenced by Constructivism and Futurism, as seen in her biography, by D.V. Sarabianov and N.L. Adaskina, Liubov Popova, translated by Marian Schwartz and published by Harry N. Abrams in 1990.