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Praise for Olga Slavnikova’s 2017

By mbs | Published: April 20, 2010

Lots of good reviews have come in for my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s “rambunctious” (as Donna Seaman describes it for Booklist) novel, 2017: Seaman writes one of the most accurate descriptions of the book I’ve read: Strange things are happening in the rugged Riphean Mountains in this rambunctious novel of Russian society 100 years after [...]

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Life Stories: anthology to benefit hospice care in Russia

By mbs | Published: August 12, 2009

Russian Life, in collaboration with the Russian Arts Foundation, Vera Hospice Fund, and the Galina Dursthoff Literary Agency, has published Life Stories, a short story collection of works by nineteen of Russia’s most acclaimed contemporary authors, translated by fourteen prominent American and British translators, including my translation of "The Storm," by Leonid Yuzefovich. “This is [...]

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