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Solzhenitsyn at 100: Celebrating a Century

A panel discussion featuring:

Boris Dralyuk, Michael Scammell, Marian Schwartz, and Galina Yuzefovich

Boris Dralyuk is a literary translator and the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.  He holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years.  He has also taught at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.  He is the author of Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934 and translator of several volumes from Russian and Polish, including, most recently, Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry and Odessa Storiesand Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales.  He is the editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution.  His work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, London Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta, World Literature Today, The Yale Review, New England Review, Harvard Review, Jewish Quarterly, and Poetry International.  His website is bdralyuk.wordpress.com.

Michael Scammell is the author of Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth Century Skeptic and Solzhenitsyn, A Biography. He has taught literature and translation at Cornell and Columbia universities, has translated books by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Nabokov into English, and writes regularly about Russian and East European literature. He became the first director of the nonprofit Writers and Scholars International (later the Writers and Scholars Educational Trust) in London, and started the quarterly magazine, Index on Censorship, devoted to documenting censorship worldwide and promoting freedom of expression.  His website is: http://michaelscammell.com/.

Marian Schwartz translates Russian classic and contemporary 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’s bestseller The Last Tsar, by Edvard Radzinsky, as well as classics by Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Goncharov, Yuri Olesha, Mikhail Lermontov, and Leo Tolstoy. Her most recent publications are Polina Dashkova’s Madness Treads Lightly, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1, and Leonid Yuzefovich’s Horsemen of the Sands. She is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association and the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowships and numerous translation prizes.  https://www.marianschwartz.com/

Galina Yuzefovich is one of the best known and most influential literary critics in Russia.  In 2017, Yuzefovich wrote her first book, The Wonderful Adventures of a Pilot Fish, a collection of articles about iconic authors of the 20th and 21st centuries that has since become recognized as an in-depth guide to contemporary Russian and foreign literature. In the introduction to her book, she has written that her work is like a portable tuning fork – “an instrument for organizing and setting your book space in tune.” She serves as literary observer and columnist for Meduza, writing reviews for a regular weekly audience of 15,000 people. She also teaches the history of contemporary literature at the Higher School of Economics and the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, and hosts a radio program, titled “The Book Shelf,” for the Mayak radio station.











When: Wed., Dec. 12, 2018 at 6:30 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
476 Fifth Ave. (42nd St. Entrance)
212-340-0863
Price: Free
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A panel discussion featuring:

Boris Dralyuk, Michael Scammell, Marian Schwartz, and Galina Yuzefovich

Boris Dralyuk is a literary translator and the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.  He holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years.  He has also taught at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.  He is the author of Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934 and translator of several volumes from Russian and Polish, including, most recently, Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry and Odessa Storiesand Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales.  He is the editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution.  His work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, London Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta, World Literature Today, The Yale Review, New England Review, Harvard Review, Jewish Quarterly, and Poetry International.  His website is bdralyuk.wordpress.com.

Michael Scammell is the author of Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth Century Skeptic and Solzhenitsyn, A Biography. He has taught literature and translation at Cornell and Columbia universities, has translated books by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Nabokov into English, and writes regularly about Russian and East European literature. He became the first director of the nonprofit Writers and Scholars International (later the Writers and Scholars Educational Trust) in London, and started the quarterly magazine, Index on Censorship, devoted to documenting censorship worldwide and promoting freedom of expression.  His website is: http://michaelscammell.com/.

Marian Schwartz translates Russian classic and contemporary 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’s bestseller The Last Tsar, by Edvard Radzinsky, as well as classics by Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Goncharov, Yuri Olesha, Mikhail Lermontov, and Leo Tolstoy. Her most recent publications are Polina Dashkova’s Madness Treads Lightly, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1, and Leonid Yuzefovich’s Horsemen of the Sands. She is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association and the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowships and numerous translation prizes.  https://www.marianschwartz.com/

Galina Yuzefovich is one of the best known and most influential literary critics in Russia.  In 2017, Yuzefovich wrote her first book, The Wonderful Adventures of a Pilot Fish, a collection of articles about iconic authors of the 20th and 21st centuries that has since become recognized as an in-depth guide to contemporary Russian and foreign literature. In the introduction to her book, she has written that her work is like a portable tuning fork – “an instrument for organizing and setting your book space in tune.” She serves as literary observer and columnist for Meduza, writing reviews for a regular weekly audience of 15,000 people. She also teaches the history of contemporary literature at the Higher School of Economics and the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, and hosts a radio program, titled “The Book Shelf,” for the Mayak radio station.

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