The Trace They Wished to Leave

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Pushkin in Translation

Three distinguished contemporary translators and scholars, Robert Chandler, Stanley Mitchell and Antony Wood will be presenting excerpts from the work of Pushkin (1799–1837), generally regarded as Russia’s greatest poet but surprisingly little known in Britain.

Robert Chandler is the editor of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida and the author of Alexander Pushkin (in the Hesperus ‘Brief Lives’ series). His translations from Russian include Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate and Everything Flows, Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Aleksander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter. His translation of Hamid Ismailov’s The Railway won the AATSEEL prize for 2007 and received a special commendation from the judges of the 2007 Rossica Translation Prize.   

Stanley Mitchell has taught Russian literature and art, comparative literature and cultural studies at a number of universities in England, Canada, Tanzania and the USA. Writers he has translated include Georg Lukács and Walter Benjamin. He is known, above all, for his translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (recently awarded a special prize by Academia Rossica).

Antony Wood has published translations of Pushkin’s verse drama and selected narrative and lyric poems. The production of his translation of the original (1825) version of Boris Godunov by Princeton University in 2007 was a world premiere. He is a winner of the Max Hayward Award  from the Translation Centre at Colombia University and in 1999 was awarded a Pushkin Medal by the Russian government. He is the publisher of Angel Books, devoted to new translations of classic European fiction and poetry.

Price: £5.00 / £3.00

Time: 7:30pm