Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky a current-day husband and wife team are known for what type of contribution to literature?
"new translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevalier appeared in 2009 and was felt by many critics to be a more accurate representation of de Beauvoir's text. As some commentators have pointed out, however, when a translation has been enormously influential it can be hard to argue that it is somehow a failure. Many classic Russian novels have been translated a number of times; in recent years Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced well-received retranslations of works including Dostoevsky's ""The Brothers Karamazov"" and The Idiot, and Leo Tolstoy's ""War and Peace"" and ""Anna Karenina"". Translations of Russian novels are"
"prose by her brother, Anri Volokhonsky (published in: Modern Poetry in Translation, New series. Ed. Daniel Weissbort. Vol 10, Winter 196, Grand Street,Spring 1989, ed. Ben Sonnenberg). Together with Emily Grossholz she translated several poems by Olga Sedakova (Hudson Review, Vol. 61, Issue 4, Winter 2009). Volokhonsky is mostly known for her work in collaboration with Richard Pevear on translation of Russian classics. Volokhonsky met Pevear in the United States in 1976 and they married six years later. The couple now live in Paris and have two trilingual children. Pevear and Volokhonsky began working together when Pevear was reading Dostoyevsky's"
"Herb Golder). He is also the author of two books of poems (The Night Talk, and Exchanges). Pevear is mostly known for his work in collaboration with Larissa Volokhonsky on translation of Russian classics. Larissa Volokhonsky was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, now St Petersburg, on 1 October 1945. After graduating from Leningrad State University with a degree in mathematical linguistics, she worked in the Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok) and travelled extensively in Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka (1968-1973). Volokhonsky emigrated to Israel in 1973, where she lived for two years. Having moved to the United States in"
"Prize. Oprah Winfrey chose this translation of ""Anna Karenina"" as a selection for her ""Oprah's Book Club"" on her television program, which led to a major increase in sales of this translation and greatly increased recognition for Pevear and Volokhonsky. Their translation of Dostoevsky's ""The Idiot"" won the first Efim Etkind Translation Prize awarded by the European University of St. Petersburg. The husband-and-wife team works in a two-step process: Volokhonsky prepares her English version of the original text, trying to follow Russian syntax and stylistic peculiarities as closely as possible, and Pevear turns this version into polished and stylistically appropriate"
"in 1973 to France, where he was one of the co-founders, together with his wife Maria Rozanova, of the Russian-language almanac ""Sintaksis"" and actively contributed to Radio Liberty. He died in 1997 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, near Paris. Their son, Iegor Gran, became a novelist. Sinyavsky was the catalyst for the formation of an important Russian-English translation team Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear, who have translated a number of works by Mikhail Bulgakov, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Nikolai Gogol, and Leo Tolstoy. Volokhonsky, who was born and raised in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), first visited the United States in the early 1970s"
"Revd. Keith, Bishop of Lichfield and Seamus Heaney (Nobel Laureate). After Prof. Polukhina’s retirement in 2001 she and her husband Prof. Daniel Weissbort run the Fund. Together they compiled and edited ""The Anthology of Russian Women Poets"" (2002) and invited several Russian women poets to present it at The Poetry International, London, 2002. Due to Prof. Weissbort’s illness The Fund ceased to exist in 2012. In December 2014 with a help of a poet Olga Shvarova The Russian Poets Fund was brought back to life. Baron Rowan Williams and a Sir Andrew Motion, a former Poet-laureate of UK, agreed to"
"an approach to the tradition previously unknown by esoteric scholars. Attention is paid to translating and making public the hitherto forgotten works of the Russian Martinists, such as the printer and statesman Ivan Vladimirovich Lopukhin and the philanthropist Nikolay Novikov, who introduced the age of Enlightenment to Russia. Apart from being prolific writers and reformers of the late Tsarist regime, their contributions to both literary, scholarly and social developments, with the establishment of printing presses, public schools and hospitals for the poor. Works of these authors are not readily available in English, but are now placed in the public domain"
"of his correspondence is in special collections at the University of Connecticut, SUNY-Buffalo, UC-San Diego, and UCLA. His wife Martha J. Koehler is the author of ""Models of Reading"" (Bucknell, 2005), a critique of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel. They live in western Pennsylvania with their two daughters. Critical pieces on Blevins' work: Richard Blevins Richard Lowell Blevins is a poet writing in the tradition of Ezra Pound, H.D., and Robert Duncan, an editor of the Charles Olson-Robert Creeley correspondence, and an award-winning teacher. He was born in Wadsworth, Ohio, in 1950. His undergraduate career was halved by the May 4,"
"writing. His book ""The Clockwork Muse"" (1999) gives practical advice to writers across disciplines, and in particular advice on time management to those finishing books and dissertations. His own writing is notable for its use of multiple examples from everyday life, an approach which one of his students, Wayne Brekhus, has called ""Zerubavelian"" sociology. He is married to Yael Zerubavel, a scholar of Israeli history who also teaches at Rutgers University. Eviatar Zerubavel Eviatar Zerubavel (born 1948) is professor of sociology at Rutgers University , a specialist in the sociology of cognition and everyday life, including topics such as time,"
"ideals that they discuss, while also being somewhat ironic about this commitment"". Nowadays New Sincerity is being contraposed not to Soviet literature, but to postmodernism. Dmitry Vodennikov has been acclaimed as the leader of the new wave of Russian New Sincerity, as was Victor Pelevin. Since 2005, poets including Reb Livingston, Joseph Massey, Andrew Mister, and Anthony Robinson have collaborated in a blog-driven poetry movement, described by Massey as ""a ‘new sincerity’ brewing in American poetry—a contrast to the cold, irony-laden poetry dominating the journals and magazines and new books of poetry"". Other poets named as associated with this movement,"
"criteria he seeks to apply.” In Christianity Today, Charles Halton observes, “instead of reconciling the tensions within wisdom literature he revels in them.” After publishing ""Understanding Wisdom Literature"" he turned his attention to the Qur’an. He has presented papers about the Qur’an at various academic conferences. He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the International Qur’anic Studies Association, and the Catholic Biblical Association. He is married to Hend Al-Mansour, an artist from Saudi Arabia. David Penchansky David Penchansky is a professor in the field of Hebrew Bible. In his writing, he applies the methodology of literary criticism"
"at Boulder. Lipovestky is the author or co-author of five books and more than seventy articles. His works include ""Russian Postmodernist Fiction: Dialogue with Chaos"" (1999) and ""Russian Postmodernism: The Essays of Historic Poetics"" (1997), ""Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama"" (2009) and ""Charms of the Cynical Reason"" (2011). He resides in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and son. Mark Lipovetsky Mark Naumovich Lipovetsky (Mарк Наумович Липовецкий) (born June 2, 1964) is a Russian literary, film, and cultural critic who advocates the position that postmodernism is replacing socialist realism as the dominant art movement in Russia."
"Read and David Edgar, the noted playwright, TV and film writer (""Nicholas Nickleby"" for the Royal Shakespeare Company; ""Pentecost"", which won an ""Evening Standard"" award in 1994; ""The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs""; ""Albert Speer"", based on Gitta Sereny's biography of Hitler's architect; ""Playing With Fire""; etc.) The current president is screenwriter Olivia Hetreed (""Girl with a Pearl Earring""). It represents writers working in television, radio, film, theatre, books and multimedia. It negotiates a series of Minimum Terms Agreements governing writers' contracts and covering minimum fees, advances, repeat fees, royalties and residuals, rights, credits, number of drafts, script alterations and"
"A complex blend of adventure, magic, science, and philosophy that probes the mysteries of existence, filtered through a distinct Russian sensibility, this astonishing work of speculative fiction—brilliantly translated by Julia Meitov Hersey—is reminiscent of modern classics such as Lev Grossman’s ""The Magicians"", Max Barry’s ""Lexicon"", and Katherine Arden’s ""The Bear and the Nightingale"", but will transport them to a place far beyond those fantastical worlds. Vita Nostra Vita Nostra is a novel by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko (Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko) first published in 2007 in Ukraine. The novel tells the story of Alexandra (Sasha) Samokhina, who is forced by"
"The book printing industry descended into crisis, the number of printed book copies dropped several times in comparison to Soviet era, and it took about a decade to revive. Among the most discussed authors of this period were Victor Pelevin, who gained popularity with first short stories and then novels, novelist and playwright Vladimir Sorokin, and the poet Dmitry Prigov. A relatively new trend in Russian literature is that female short story writers Tatyana Tolstaya or Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, and novelists Lyudmila Ulitskaya or Dina Rubina have come into prominence. The tradition of the classic Russian novel continues with such authors"
"about literacy, pedagogy, contemporary poetry, and teacher-research. His best-known book, ""Working Classics"" (1990), co-edited with Peter Oresick, was the first to highlight a seldom acknowledged working-class presence within contemporary American poetry. He is also field director of the National Writing Project, based at the University of California at Berkeley. He directed until 2002 the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project, working to improve students’ writing and academic performance in K-12 schools. He has lived in the United States since the 1970s, primarily in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He currently lives with author and painter Jennifer Matesa and"
"cited him as an inspiration. In an English-language talk at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, Shishkin said:For me now, the top of Russian literature is Alexander Goldstein. [...] I'm sure in fifty years here at Columbia University and other American universities all professors will consider our time, our epoch, the epoch of Alexander Goldstein. And we, writers, will be just contemporaries of Alexander Goldstein. We just shared with him the epoch. [...] And if you asked me, ""What Russian writers are important and genius nowadays?"", I would say: “Read Alexander Goldstein”. Alexander Goldstein's wife – Irina Goldstein – was"
"(1818–1883), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), and Lev Tolstoi (1828–1910) were prominent Russian writers, who with their great literary achievements, helped make the nineteenth century the ""Golden Age of the Russian novel"". But nowhere in their midst does one see a woman author. Where are the great woman authors of Russia to rival George Eliot or Jane Austen? The answer can be found in Pavlova. Although she was an exceptional poet who helped Russian poetry transcend national borders with her translations, Karolina Pavlovna was a woman-poet living in a man’s world. ""Being a woman was perceived as grotesque in a female"" Even"
"important body of literary hermeneutics in the modern Russian language. He is often considered the founder of a ""German school"" of Russian poets and as such has influenced figures as far afield as Fyodor Tyutchev and Marina Tsvetaeva. Vasily Zhukovsky Vasily Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at the Romanov court as tutor to the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna and later to her son, the future Tsar-Liberator Alexander II. Zhukovsky is credited with introducing the Romantic Movement"
"genre boundaries and constantly strives to reflect Modern Art in the most relevant way."" The Center's writer and dramaturge, Valeriy Pecheykin, is a regular contributor to the Russian LGBT magazine ""Kvir"", author of the plays ""My Moscow"" (2008), ""Net"" (2009), ""Lucifer"" (2008), ""Russia, Forward!"" (2011), ""A Little Hero"" (2014), screenplay co-author for Pavel Lungin's ""The Conductor"" (Russia, 2012). Kirill Serebrennikov, the artistic director of the Gogol Center, is professor (of acting and direction) at the Moscow Art Theatre School. His productions were presented at the Wiener Festwochen and the Avignon Theatre Festival. His films have been screened at the Cannes"
"Practically every novel they have written, in addition to several short stories, have received various awards. They were honored as the ESFS's Best Writers of Europe in Eurocon 2005. Some of their novels have also been translated into other languages (ex. Polish, English etc.). ""The Scar"" became their first major book publication in United States in February, 2012 from Tor Books. ""This section lists unique objects and creatures, which were never used in any other work, or very little know ones, such as ""Chugaister"" ()."" <BR> Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko Spouses Maryna Yuryevna Dyachenko and Serhiy Serhievich Dyachenko (Marina and"
"Decline and on the New Trends in Contemporary Russian Literature"" (1892). Both writers promoted extreme individualism and the act of creation. Merezhkovsky was known for his poetry as well as a series of novels on ""god-men"", among whom he counted Christ, Joan of Arc, Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon, and (later) Hitler. His wife, Zinaida Gippius, also a major poet of early symbolism, opened a salon in St Petersburg, which came to be known as the ""headquarters of Russian decadence"". Andrei Bely's Petersburg (novel) a portrait of the social strata of the Russian capital, is frequently cited as a late"
"husband) the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. She was the general editor of the two volume encyclopedia ""The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America"" and has published a collection of her photographic portraits of well-known writers in the book ""Beats & Company"". She is also the editor of numerous volumes on Beat and 1960s American literature, including ""The Portable Beat Reader"", ""The Portable Sixties Reader"", ""Beat Down To Your Soul"", ""The Portable Jack Kerouac"", and in 2010 ""Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation"", which she co-authored with her husband Samuel Charters, a musicologist. Her photographs of the"
"difficult period for Russian literature, with few distinct voices. Among the most discussed authors of this period were Victor Pelevin, who gained popularity with short stories and novels, novelist and playwright Vladimir Sorokin, and the poet Dmitri Prigov. In the 21st century, a new generation of Russian authors appeared, differing greatly from the postmodernist Russian prose of the late 20th century, which lead critics to speak about ""new realism"". Russian authors have significantly contributed to numerous literary genres. Russia has five Nobel Prize in literature laureates. As of 2011, Russia was the fourth largest book producer in the world in"
"along with his apprentices, The Serapion Brothers created entire new styles in literature and contributed new insights to the understanding of society through their experience in this city. Anna Akhmatova became an important leader for Russian poetry. Her poem ""Requiem"" adumbrates the perils encountered during the Stalinist era. Another notable 20th-century writer from Saint Petersburg is Joseph Brodsky, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987). While living in the United States, his writings in English reflected on life in Saint Petersburg from the unique perspective of being both an insider and an outsider to the city in essays such"
"is wonderful to watch."" Novelist Hilma Wolitzer wrote that Petroski ""understands perfectly the world of childhood and makes the reader see the ways in which we become adults."" Maritime historian Joan Druett described ""A Bride's Passage"" as ""a superbly written, formidably researched retelling of Susan Hathorn's honeymoon voyage through the pages of her diary."" ""Publishers Weekly""'s starred review described ""A Bride's Passage"" as ""a compelling contribution to maritime literature and the lives of Victorian-age women..."" She lives in Durham, North Carolina with her husband, the engineer and author Henry Petroski; they have children Karen and Stephen. She has been awarded"
"replace Seamus Heaney and The Rt. Revd. Keith, Bishop of Lichfield, who have passed away. More recently V. Polukhina has completed ""The Anthology of Poems Dedicated to Joseph Brodsky"", under the title “Iz nezabyvshikh menia” (“By those who remember me”) which include sixteen British and two Irish poets. In 2014 she was awarded the A. C. Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature and 2018 Medal of Pushkin for the service to Russian and British culture and for the study and preservation of cultural heritage. Valentina Polukhina Valentina Polukhina (Russian: Валентина Платоновна Полухина; born 18 June 1936) is a"
"20th-century literature. Kevin Kopelson Kevin Kopelson (born January 23, 1960), is an American literary critic. He received a B.A. from Yale University, a J.D. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Brown University. Currently, he is Emeritus Professor of English at The University of Iowa. His husband is Doctor David Coster, a general surgeon. Once described by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as ""invitingly stylish and excitingly lucid,"" he is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books. He writes on topics ranging from fin-de-siècle literature to fashion photography. Kopelson has published in the fields of sexuality studies, critical theory, cultural"
"and Andrei Platonov and short story writers Isaak Babel and Mikhail Zoshchenko. The OPOJAZ group of literary critics, also known as Russian formalism, was created in close connection with Russian Futurism. Two of its members also produced influential literary works, namely Viktor Shklovsky, whose numerous books (e.g., ""Zoo, or Letters Not About Love"", 1923) defy genre in that they present a novel mix of narration, autobiography, and aesthetic as well as social commentary, and Yury Tynyanov, who used his knowledge of Russia's literary history to produce a set of historical novels mainly set in the Pushkin era (e.g., """"). Writers"
"Mary Poovey Mary Louise Poovey is an American cultural historian and literary critic whose work focuses on the Victorian Era. She is currently Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities at New York University, and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge. Poovey has taught at Johns Hopkins University, Swarthmore College, and Yale University. Poovey gained her PhD from the University of Virginia in 1976. In 1984 Poovey published ""The proper lady and the woman writer: ideology as style in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen"". Her book is based around"
"Jewish faith. Her husband, English Showalter, is a Yale-educated professor of 18th century French literature. The Showalters have two children, Michael Showalter, an actor and comedian, and Vinca Showalter LaFleur, a professional speechwriter. Showalter is a specialist in Victorian literature and the ""Fin-de-siècle"" (turn of the 19th century). Her most innovative work in this field is in madness and hysteria in literature, specifically in women's writing and in the portrayal of female characters. She is the Avalon Foundation Professor Emerita. Her academic honors include a [Guggenheim Fellowship] and a Rockefeller Humanities fellowship (1981–82). She is also the past-president of the"
"was described by Elizabeth Judd as being confident and entertaining in the Kerouac mold, noting Kowalski's ""talent for casual invention"" and ""bravado,"" even though it never reaches the ""deeper truths"" of its own story. Kowalski is married to Alexandra Nedergaard (b. 1968) of Toronto, Ontario. They have two children. William Kowalski William John Kowalski III (born August 3, 1970 in Parma, Ohio) is an American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter. Kowalski is the eldest child of Dr. William John Kowalski, Jr. of Buffalo, N.Y. (born 1942) and Kathleen Emily Siepel of Angola, N.Y. (b. 1942). In 1974, the family moved to Erie,"
"on literature and historical and social aspects of life in Russia, as well as numerous essays. In his 2003 book ""The Russian Man in the 20th Century"", he wrote about Russian life, not only based on his personal experience, but also on numerous letters received from the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Foundation in the early 1990s, which were given to him by the famous Russian writer and dissident and his wife, Natalia. Oleg Pavlov is said to be one of the most gifted examples of what has been dubbed the ""renaissance in Russian literature."" ""Captain of the Steppe"" has been translated into"