In 1994?1998, he studied Modern Languages (Russian and Italian) at Worcester College, University of Oxford . In 2000?2001, he did MA in Russian Studies at SSEES, University College London . In 2007, he completed his DPhil at Wolfson College, Oxford . ^[1]

In 2008?2017, he was Consultant Editor for Russian and East-Central Europe at The Times Literary Supplement . ^[2]

Since 2010, he has been a Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford . ^[3] In 2011?2014, he was director of the Russkiy Mir Program.

Since 2014, he has been working as a teacher of Russian literature at the University of Oxford . ^[2]

Oliver Ready came to the attention of the general public in 2014 when his translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky 's novel Crime and Punishment was published. In a review with the telling title "This new translation of Crime and Punishment is a masterpiece", the writer and critic A. N. Wilson writes: "Sometimes, though, a new translation really makes us see a favourite masterpiece afresh", which is followed by claims that Ready's translation is better than the classic translations of Constance Garnett and David Magarshak . ^[4]

• Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963?2013 (Peter Lang: Oxford, 2017) (Russian Transformations: Literature, Culture and Ideas). ISBN  978-1-78707-401-9 .

• Yury Buida : The Zero Train = Дон Домино (London: Dedalus, 2001; ISBN  978-1-903517-01-7 )
• Yury Buida: The Prussian Bride = Прусская невеста (London: Dedalus, 2002; ISBN  978-1-903517-06-2 )
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky . Crime and Punishment = Преступление и наказание (London: Penguin Books, 2014; ISBN  978-0-14-119280-2 )
• Vladimir Sharov . Before and During = До и во время (London: Dedalus, 2014; ISBN  978-1-9076-5071-0 )
• Ivan Maisky : The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London = Дневник дипломата (Лондон, 1934?1943) (edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky, translated by Oliver Ready and Tatiana Sorokina. ? London: London Yale University Press, 2016; ISBN  978-0-300-22170-1 )
• Vladimir Sharov: The Rehearsals = Репетиции (London: Dedalus, 2018; ISBN  978-1910213148 )
• Nikolai Gogol : And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon = Рассказы (London: Pushkin Press, 2019; ISBN  9781782275152 )
• Vladimir Sharov: Be as Children = Будьте как дети (London: Dedalus, 2021)

• 2005 ? Rossica Translation Prize for translation of the short-story cycle The Prussian bride (author Yuri Buida ) into English.
• 2015 ? Read Russia English Translation Prize for translation of the novel Before and during (author Vladimir Sharov ) into English.
• 2016 ? shortlist of the PEN Translation Prize for translation of the novel Crime and Punishment (author Fyodor Dostoevsky ) into English.
• 2018 ? Read Russia Prize for translation of the novel Rehearsals (author Vladimir Sharov ) into English.