Marian Schwartz is a prize-winning translator of Russian fiction, history, biography, criticism, and fine art. She is the principal English translator of the works of Nina Berberova and translated the New York Times bestseller The Last Tsar, by Edvard Radzinsky, as well as classics by Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Goncharov, Yuri Olesha, and Mikhail Lermontov. Her two most recent book translations are Mikhail Bulgakov's White Guard (Yale University Press) and Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov (Seven Stories Press), soon to be out in paperback from Yale University Press. Overlook Press will publish her translation of Olga Slavnikova's 2017 in March 2010. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowships and is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association.
Chad Post, editor extraordinaire of Open Letter Books, a relatively new publisher devoted exclusively to international literature, featured me today on this new feature of his Three Percent blog. Read all about it here.
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Yuzefovich, “Cranes and Pygmies”
Yuzefovich’s latest novel, Cranes and Pygmies, has won Russia’s Big Book award and been nominated for the National Bestseller prize. To read my sample translation, click here. For a full proposal, contact the Elena Kostioukovitch agency (rights@elkost.com).
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Moscow Noir
Coming up in Akashic Books’ groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies is Moscow Noir. Each book in the series is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book—this time Moscow. I’ll have some blood-curdling stories in it by Andrei Khusnutdinov, Igor Zotov, and Sergei Kuznetsov, among others.
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Olga Slavnikova, “2017”
Overlook Press will be publishing Olga Slavnikova’s Russian Booker Prize-winning novel, 2017, translated with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, in March 2010.
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Olga Slavnikova’s Train Stories
A series of twelve stories written for the Russian Railroads glossy in-train magazine, now published in Russian as Love in Train Car No. 7. Already published: "Love in Train Car No. 7" (Chtenia/Readings 05 Winter 2009), “Substance” (Subtropics, no. 7, Winter-Spring 2009). Circulating: "Recluse," "Russian Bullet." Circulating: "The Cherepanova Sisters," the Russian original of which won the 2009 Yuri Kabakov Prize for Best Short Story.
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Leonid Yuzefovich, Harlequin’s Costume
Harlequin’s Costume, the first volume in Leonid Yuzefovich’s popular historical detective trilogy set in St. Petersburg and based on the real life Chief Inspector Putilin. The successful Russian TV mini-series, “Detective Ivan Dmitrievich Putilin,” was based on this trilogy. The manuscript is complete. Not yet under contract.
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Yuzefovich, “Cranes and Pygmies”
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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.