Translator of Russian Literature, Marian Schwartz, to Read
Literary translator, Marian Schwartz
The U of A Programs in Creative Writing and Translation present a reading by award-winning literary translator Marian Schwartz at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, in Giffels Auditorium, Old Main.
Schwartz's translations cover Russian fiction, history, biography, criticism, and fine art. She is the principal English translator of the works of Nina Berberova and translated the New York Times bestseller The Last Tsar, by Edvard Radzinsky, as well as classics by Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Goncharov, Yuri Olesha, and Mikhail Lermontov. Her most recent book translations are Mikhail Shishkin's Maidenhair, three novels by Andrei Gelasimov, Leonid Yuzefovich's Harlequin's Costume, and Aleksandra Shatsikih's Black Square. Her translations of Mikhail Bulgakov's White Guard and Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov are now out in paperback from Yale University Press. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowships and is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association.
This reading is free and open to the public. It is made possible by support from the University of Arkansas department of English, the Walton Family Foundation, and the University of Arkansas fine arts activities fee.
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Contacts
Allison Hammond,
Creative Writing Program
479-575-4301,
mfa@uark.edu
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