Flashcards: Russian–English translators

William Horsfall Carter, most commonly known in print as W.

Babette Deutsch (September 22, 1895 – November 13, 1982) was an American poet, critic, translator, and novelist.

Avril Pyman (aka Dr Avril Sokolov, FBA) (born 4 May 1930) is a British scholar and translator of Russian literature.

Avrahm Yarmolinsky (January 13, 1890 – September 28, 1975) was an author, translator and the husband of Babette Deutsch.

Aylmer Maude (28 March 1858 – 25 August 1938) and Louise Maude (1855–1939) were English translators of Leo Tolstoy's works, and Aylmer Maude also wrote his friend Tolstoy's biography.

Brian Leonard Pearce (8 May 1915 – 25 November 2008) was a British Marxist political activist, historian, and translator.

Joel Carmichael (1915–2006) was an American historian, magazine editor, and translator.

Joel Lee Brenner (August 2, 1912 – November 14, 1997) was an American mathematician who specialized in matrix theory, linear algebra, and group theory.

John Glad (December 31, 1941 – December 4, 2015) was an American academic who specialized in the literature and politics of exile, especially Russian literature; he has written about Nazi Germany, World War II and the Holocaust.

John Laurence Seymour (January 18, 1893 in Los Angeles – February 1, 1986 in San Francisco) was an American composer and playwright.

Percy Edward Pinkerton (19 June 1855 – 31 August 1946) was an English translator and poet.

Will Firth, born 23 May 1965 in Newcastle, Australia, is a literary translator who focuses on contemporary writing from the Serbo-Croatian speaking countries and Macedonia.

Sir Charles Hepburn Johnston GCMG, KStJ (11 March 1912 – 23 April 1986) was a senior British diplomat and translator of Russian poetry.

Elaine Feinstein (born 24 October 1930, Bootle, Lancashire) is a poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator.

Genya Turovskaya is an American poet, born in Ukraine.

Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature.

Ann Dunnigan was an American actress and teacher who later became a translator of 19th-century Russian literature.

Ann Pasternak Slater is a literary scholar and translator who was formerly a Fellow and Tutor at St Anne's College, Oxford.

George Rapall Noyes (April 2, 1873 – May 5, 1952) was Professor of Slavic Languages at Berkeley University of California.

George Shanks (1896–1957) was an expatriate Briton born in Moscow and was the first translator of Protocols of Zion from Russian into English.

Edna Worthley Underwood (1873–1961) was an American author, poet, and translator.

Humphrey Higgins (fl. 1960-1998) was a British book editor and translator who with Peter Fisher made the first complete English translation of Olaus Magnus's A Description of the Northern Peoples (Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus).

Helen F. Rappaport (née Ware; born 1947), is a British author and former actress.

Natalie de Bogory (also known as Natalie Debogory or Natalie DeBogory-Mokriyevich) (1887-1939) is primarily known for her notorious work in translating from the Russian language into the English language, and subsequently distributing and participating in having published the first or second American edition in the United States of the infamous Plagiarism known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Rose Strunsky Lorwin, born Rose Strunsky (1884, Russia – 1963, New York) was a Jewish Russian-American translator and socialist based in New York City.

James E. Falen is a professor emeritus of Russian at the University of Tennessee.

Lyn Coffin (born November 12, 1943) is an American poet, fiction writer, playwright, translator, non-fiction writer, editor.

Marion Jessie Mainwaring (April 21, 1922 - December 12, 2015) was an American writer, translator, and critic.

Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick, also known under her pen name and virtual worlds pseudonym "Prokofy Neva", is a former human rights activist, Russian–English translator, former journalist, and a blogger and commentator.

Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher.

Lynn Solotaroff (October 21, 1929 – March 21, 1994) was an American translator of Tolstoy and Chekhov, among others, from Russian to English.

Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky (Самуил Соломонович Котелянский) (February 28, 1880 – January 21, 1955) was a Russian-born British translator.

Sally Ann Laird (2 May 1956 – 15 July 2010) was a British editor and translator who specialised in Russian literature.

Alan Myers (18 August 1933 – 8 August 2010) was a noted translator, most notably of works by Russian authors.

Sir Alexander Condie Stephen KCMG KCVO CB (20 July 1850 – 10 May 1908) was a British diplomat and translator from Russian and Persian.

Antonina W. Bouis is a literary translator from Russian to English.

April FitzLyon (22 April 1920 – 17 September 1998) was an English translator, biographer, and historian.

Arthur Boyars (born 1925) is a British poet and musicologist, who is also a translator and critic, literary editor and publisher.

Sir Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright, LL.

David Magarshack (23 December 1899 – 26 October 1977) was a British translator and biographer of Russian authors, best known for his translations of Dostoevsky.

David McDuff (born 1945, Sale, Cheshire, England) is a British translator, editor and literary critic.

Hubert Marshal Butler (2 October 1900 – 5 January 1991) was an Irish essayist who wrote on a wide range of topics, from local history and archaeology to the political and religious affairs of eastern Europe before and during World War II.

Isabel Florence Hapgood (November 21, 1851 – June 26, 1928) was an American ecumenist, writer and translator, especially of Russian and French texts.

Jane Kenyon (May 23, 1947 – April 22, 1995) was an American poet and translator.