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Slavic Professor Reviews White Guard

By mbs | Published: March 9, 2010

I was thrilled to read a very positive review of my translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s White Guard by Sidney Eric Dement of the University of Kansas in the Slavic and East European Journal.  He begins: In the course of their life in translation, the best novels shed their skin more than once. The time for [...]

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White Guard Wins AATSEEL Prize

By mbs | Published: December 1, 2009

I’m thrilled to announce that my translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s White Guard has won the 2009 AATSEEL Award for Best Translation into English.  The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), founded in 1941, “exists to advance the study and promote the teaching of Slavic and East European languages, literatures, and [...]

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The Independent Praises White Guard

By mbs | Published: October 2, 2009

Boyd Tonkin at The Independent has given my translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s White Guard a short but very sweet review: Marian Schwartz’s pacey and compelling new translation of this most unstuffy classic captures a wonderful chronicle of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath as a colourful, absurd and even merry cocktail of nightmare and farce. [...]

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Yale Publishes White Guard in Paperback

By mbs | Published: May 1, 2009

A year after publishing the cloth edition, Yale University Press has come out with a paperback edition of my translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s White Guard. For more info, click here.

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Discussing White Guard at University of Texas, November 19, 2008

By mbs | Published: November 9, 2008

The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREES) has invited me to discuss my new translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s White Guard and the art and politics of retranslation on Wednesday, November 19th, at 2 PM, in the Asian Culture Room, Texas Union 4.224. The public is very much invited.

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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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