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Lizok’s Bookshelf Reviews Olga Slavnikova’s 2017

Lizok’s Bookshelf (written by Lisa Hayden Espenschade) has posted an interview with me about some recent translations of mine and even a cheerful thought on the future of foreign literature publishing in this country.

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Berberova’s Billancourt Tales Now out in Paperback

New Directions has just put out a paperback edition of my translation of Nina Berberova's Billancourt Tales with an especially spiffy cover. Please buy it from your favorite independent bookstore. “The thirteen stories of Billancourt Tales are closely observed, potently phrased and dapperly shaped . . . . Marian Schwartz’s English translation defly captures the fanciful [...]

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Berberova reviewed in Wall Street Journal

Alan Furst, whose novels include The Polish Officer (1995) and Dark Voyage (2004), and whose The Spies of Warsaw (2008) has just been published in paperback, has included Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg (which I translated with Richard D. Sylvester, published by New York Review Books in 2005), among his “FIve Best” [...]

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Second Glance: A Voice Displaced

"Second Glance: A Voice Displaced" by Karen Vanuska Last year Sovietologists and a few nonfiction book critics celebrated the publication of Lesley Chamberlain’s Lenin’s Private War: the Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia. Thanks to Chamberlain’s thorough research and translation of recently-released Soviet documents, Lenin’s exile of two boatloads of Russian [...]

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Nina Berberova’s “Lost World”

"The Lost World" by Michael Frank Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2002 The story of Nina Berberova’s career has all the earmarks of a literary fable that might have been written by Henry James or her compatriot Vladimir Nabokov or even by Berberova herself, although it never was. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1901, Berberova [...]

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Nina Berberova, 92, Poet, Novelist and Professor

Nina Berberova, a Russian-born poet, novelist, playwright, critic and professor of literature whose biography is a classic of the Russian émigré Diaspora, died on Sunday at a nursing home in Philadelphia. She was 92.

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