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.
The Billancourt Tales By Nina Berberova Translated by Marian Schwartz New Directions, 2001; paperback ed. 2009 Thirteen newly discovered stories by the great Russian writer, translated into English for the first time. Now added to the quartet of books by Nina Berberova that New Directions has presented for the delight of American readers is this [...]
Cape of Storms By Nina Berberova Translated by Marian Schwartz New Directions, 2000 Cape of Storms, one of the great Russian writer’s most fascinating novels, was published serially in 1951 in the Novyi Zhurnal — and Nina Berberova herself, late in life, took the old migr journals off a shelf and handed them to distinguished [...]
The Book of Happiness By Nina Berberova Translated by Marian Schwartz New Directions, 1999 An outstanding novel about a young Russian woman’s life in exile after the Russian Revolution. The Book of Happiness is one of the outstanding novels the great Russian writer Nina Berberova wrote during the years she lived in Paris, and the [...]
The Ladies from St. Petersburg By Nina Berberova Translated by Marian Schwartz New Directions, 1998; paperback ed., 2000 Selected by The New York Times as one of the Best Books of 1998, now available as a ND paperbook. Writing with a resonating clarity, unsentimental yet full of human sympathy., Nina Berberova stands as one of [...]
The Tattered Cloak and Other Novels By Nina Berberova Translated by Marian Schwartz Knopf, 1991; Vintage paperback ed., 1992; New Directions Classic, 2001 A New York Times Notable Book of 1991 The greatest collection by one of the great Russian writers is now back in print. First published in Europe in the 1930s and ’40s, [...]
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.