PEN festival seeking Russian translator for Svetlana Alexievich

[Elena Gapova]

PEN festival seeking Russian translator for Svetlana AlexiThis is a
forwarded message (and my note: S.A. became widely known for her "U voiny ne
zhenskoe ne litso", the "new" (uncensored) version of which was published
last year in Russian, and is currently being translated into English; she is
also listed as a Belarusian writer writing in Russian).
e.g.

The PEN World Festival is seeking someone (or several people) who

can translate for Svetlana Alexievich April 15-18.  Svetlana is a

very important Russian writer, from Belarus, now living in exile

in Europe.  Here is the bio on her from the PEN website:



   Svetlana Alexievich was born in the Ukraine in 1948.

   Alexievich's awards include the Swedish PEN prize for "courage and
dignity as a writer." She constructs narratives from interviews with
witnesses to the most shattering national events. Twenty-one documentary
films have been based on her screenplays.

   In 1989, Boys in Zink, banned from publication for 10 years, blew up the
myth of the Soviet-Afghan war. She authored Enchanted with Death in 1993 and
The Chernobyl Prayer in 1997. Voices from Chernobyl, translated by Keith
Gesson, will be published by Dalkey Archive this spring.



There is much more information about her and many links

on her website: http://alexievich.promedia.by/eng/index.htm



She is speaking on a panel at the New York Public Library

at 4 PM on the 16th and PEN has lined up a translator for that,

and someone is meeting her at the airport, but nothing else has been

organized and she speaks no English.  If someone who speaks Russian

would like to help her with whatever she needs to do, that would be great.



I also need a translator to help me interview her either the night she

arrives on April 15, or on the 16 and/or 17, depending on

her schedule.  I will write her and see if she has any other

appointments, but in the meantime, would love to hear from any

one who would like to translate for her.



Thanks,



Meredith Tax

-- Meredith Tax, President
Women's WORLD
P.O. Box 250 891
Columbia University Station
New York NY 10025
Tel. 212-947-2915
Email: wworld at igc.org
http://www.wworld.org

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