To Be Translated or Not to Be Foreword by Paul Auster Doestoevsky, Heraclitus, Dante, Virgil, Homer, Cervantes, Kafka, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Hölderlin, and scores of other poets and writers who have marked me forever—I, an American, whose only foreign language is French—have all been revealed to me, read by me, digested by me, in translation. Translators [...]
Works in Progress
- Andrei Gelasimov’s “The Lying Year”
In 2012, AmazonCrossing will be publishing my second translation of a novel by Andrei Gelasimov, “The Lying Year,” a story told from two points of view—Mikhail, whose boss has asked him to spy on his son Sergei, and Sergei, the son. In this...
- St. Petersburg Noir
Akashic Books is publishing another one of its great anthologies of noir stories from Russia, this time for St. Petersburg. I’ll have translations in it of stories by Lena Eltang, Andrei Rubanov, Mikhail Kudriavtsev, and Anna Solovey.
- Mikhail Shishkin's Maidenhair
Shishkin has won both the National Big Book Prize (2006) and National Bestseller Prize (2005) for Maidenhair, which I am now translating for Open Letter, with publication slated for 2012. The book has also won prizes in France, Italy, and China. My f...
- 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@elk...
- 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....
- Andrei Gelasimov’s “The Lying Year”
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