translator question

[Jules Levin]

On 9/14/2012 9:03 AM, Valentino, Russell wrote:
>
> “Do you have any information about a Nabokov translator named Winifred 
> Roy? She translated Camera Obscura into English, it was published in 
> 1936 by John Long in London. Nabokov is on the record saying that he 
> despised her translation, and later he rewrote/retranslated it as 
> "Laughter in the Dark" using a great deal of her prose but erasing her 
> name entirely. Other than this there is very little known about her. 
> Any info or names of good potential resources for this kind of 
> research would be helpful.”
Maybe she was invented by Nabokov to cover his first not very good 
translation into English... Sort of thing he would do.
Jules Levin




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