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Cosmopolitan Lawyer Picks Oblomov

By mbs | Published: December 25, 2010

Cosmopolitan Lawyer has chosen my translation of Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov as one of its fiction picks! S/he quotes one of the great lines from Mikhail Shishkin’s afterword: “Forced to choose between an unworthy life and sleeping, Oblomov chooses sleep. Suicide by sofa.”

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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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Yale UP’s Modern Take on Oblomov

By mbs | Published: November 24, 2009

Here is Yale University Press’s sleek modern cover for its paperback edition of my translation of Oblomov, scheduled for publication in February 2010.  Incredibly handsome, I think.  I wonder whether Oblomov ever slept barefoot.  Or under satin sheets, for that matter.  For more about the book, or to pre-order (you know you want to), click [...]

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White Guard, by Mikhail Bulgakov

By mbs | Published: October 8, 1931

White Guard By Mikhail Bulgakov Introduction by Evgeny Dobrenko Translated by Marian Schwartz Yale University Press, 2008; paperback ed. 2009 Winner, 2009 AATSEEL Award for Best Translation into English White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical first novel, revolves around a Ukrainian family in their home city of Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult [...]

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