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Russian BookWorld: Dystopia for Our Times: “2017″ by Olga Slavnikova

By mbs | Published: February 6, 2012

Konstantin Boulich reports on my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s novel 2017 for Voice of Russia: Thanks to a superb translation by Marian Schwartz, Olga Slavnikova’s dystopian novel “2017”, arguably the writer’s most important work today is now available in English. I talk to Marian Schwartz about the joys and challenges of translating Slavnikova’s rich and [...]

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“Luminous”

By mbs | Published: January 5, 2012

Phoebe Taplin has given Olga Slavnikova’s 2017 (now published in the UK as well, by Duckworth) a wonderful review in the January 5, 2012, “Russia Now” supplement to the London Telegraph, calling it “an ambitious, postmodern contribution to a revered literary tradition” and the translation “luminous.”  Read the rest here.

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2017 Translation Wins 2011 Heldt Prize

By mbs | Published: October 31, 2011

The Association of Women in Slavic Studies has awarded me the prize for 2011 Best Translation in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women’s Studies for my translation of Olga Slavnikova, 2017 (Overlook/Duckworth, 2010). The prize will be celebrated at the AWSS annual meeting and luncheon convention at the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies convention in [...]

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“Luminous Translation” of Olga Slavnikova’s “2017”

By mbs | Published: September 14, 2011

Phoebe Taplin writes a rave review of “2017” for Russia Beyond the Headlines: Olga Slavnikova’s ‘2017,’ set on the anniversary of the revolution, is so packed full of ideas and images it threatens to explode. And, she goes on to say, Slavnikova’s strange, genre-defying novel, winner of the 2006 Russian Booker Prize, finally made it [...]

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An Evening with Olga Slavnikova and Marian Schwartz

By mbs | Published: April 29, 2011

On Wednesday, May 25, at 6:30p, Olga Slavnikova and I will be giving a reading at the Jerry Orbach Theater in New York.  Last year her novel, 2017, which won the Russian Booker Prize, was published in English in my translation by Overlook Press.  Save the date! Jerry Orbach Theater, 1627 Broadway Third Floor (entrance on [...]

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Lobster & Canary Likes 2017 for 2010

By mbs | Published: December 21, 2010

Daniel A. Rabuzzi writes Lobster & Canary, a blog about speculative, fantastical and surreal fiction, poetry, and visual arts, fairy tales, oral epic, and children’s literature.  He’s included Olga Slavnikova’s 2017 among his favorite novels read in 2010: Olga Slavnikova, 2017 (Overlook, 2010, trans. from Russian by Marian Schwartz). The "most difficult-to-classify book of the [...]

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