Looking for titles of post-Soviet Russian literature in translation

Ellen Elias-Bursac eliasbursac at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jan 23 02:05:21 UTC 2011


Also the Keith Gessen/Anna Summers translations of Petrushevskaya's stories,
called
*There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's
Baby*<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143114662?ie=UTF8&tag=slatmaga-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0143114662>
.


On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com>wrote:

> And Sally Laird's translations of Petrushevskaya.  And Andrew Bromfield's
> of Pelevin.  And especially Joanne Turnbull's outstanding translations of
> Asar Eppel (GLAS).  The book, which deserves to be better known, is titled
> THE GRASSY STREET.
>
> R.
> On 22 Jan 2011, at 22:57, Inna Caron wrote:
>
> > Dear Olga,
> >
> > try Nina Sadur, "Witch's Tears and other stories" (1997).
> >
> > IC
> >
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> SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] on behalf of Olga Livshin [afol at UAA.ALASKA.EDU]
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> > Subject: [SEELANGS] Looking for titles of post-Soviet Russian literature
> in translation
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I will be teaching a course on contemporary Russian literature, with all
> works in English translation.  It is a survey course, and our time span will
> range from the late Soviet period to today. I am interested in finding out
> about more titles of works from the 1990s and 2000s in high-quality English
> translation, particularly prose and plays. I am aware of the NYRB series
> (Tatyana Tolstaya, Vladimir Sorokin and others) and Schocken Books (Lyudmila
> Ulitskaya and others), as well as major prose and poetry anthologies. Other
> sources for fiction and/or drama, such as literary journals with good
> translations of selected prose authors, as well as play publications, would
> be greatly appreciated.  Thank you very much for your help.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Olga Livshin
> >
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