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Patrick Miles
(born 30 January 1948) is an English writer and translator.
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He was born in
Sandwich, Kent
and attended
Sir Roger Manwood's Grammar School
, then read Russian and German at
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
, graduating in 1971.
He taught Russian and German language/literature for all Cambridge colleges from 1971 to 1977 and 1987 to 1993, as well as researching early
Chekhov
with a period spent in Moscow 1972 to 1974, meeting leading Russian literary critics including
Mikhail Bakhtin
.
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He has been a writer, translator, and researcher since then, and worked in the theatre, including being artistic director of the
Cambridge Chekhov Company
and Russian consultant to the
Royal National Theatre
. He was also a Senior Research Associate at
Cambridge University
1984?87, after which he ran an information consultancy and a European translation agency 1991?99.
In 2010 Miles was awarded a Cambridge PhD for his publications on Russian literature, especially the work of Anton Chekhov.
He currently resides in
Cambridge
, where he continues to write books, articles, poems
[3]
and plays.
Selected works
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Books
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- Chekhov on the British Stage
(Cambridge, CUP, 1993) (edited and translated by)
ISBN
978-0521384674
- Mikhail Gromov, Chekhov Scholar and Critic: An Essay in Cultural Difference
(Nottingham, Astra Press, 2006)
ISBN
978-0946134687
- Brief Lives: Anton Chekhov
(London, Hesperus Press, 2008)
ISBN
978-1843919001
- George Calderon: Edwardian Genius
(Cambridge, Sam&Sam, 2018)
ISBN
978-1999967604
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- What Can We Hope For?
(Cambridge, Sam&Sam, 2019) with John Polkinghorne
ISBN
978-1999967611
Plays and Stage Adaptations
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- Ivanov
(1974)
- Happiness!
(1974), a programme of Chekov's one-act plays
- The Cherry Orchard
(1975)
- The Most Absolute Freedom
(1975), an entertainment about the young Chekhov
- Rabbits
(1975), a one-act play
- Last Summer in Chulimsk
(1977)
- Duck-Hunting
(1977)
- White Guard
(1978)
- A Month in the Country
(1979)
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- In One Stay
(1982), a one-act play
- The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Ivan Chonkin
(1988), by
Vladimir Voinovich
- On the Bottom of Life
(1994), by
Maxim Gorky
- The Conjurer
(1995), by
Sacha Guitry
- Let's Dream
(1995), by
Sacha Guitry
- It Makes a Break
(1997), a one-act play
- Sara
(1997), an adaptation of Chekhov's Ivanov
- Far Out
(1998), a one-act play
Major Translations
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- Chekhov: The Early Stories 1883?88
, translated by Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher (John Murray/Macmillan New York, 1982; Abacus 1984; World's Classics 1994, Oxford World's Classics 1999)
- A Theatre Romance
(1990), translation of
Teatral'nyi roman
by
Bulgakov
, commissioned by the Royal National Theatre
- Two Plays by Aleksandr Vampilov
(1994)
- The Russian Theatre after Stalin
(1999)
- A Moth on the Fence
(2009)
Articles, Papers, Book Chapters
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- Chekhov and the Company Problem in the British Theatre
, in Chekhov on the British Stage (1993), pp. 185?93
- Aleksandr Vampilov: A Playwright whose Time is Now
, in British East-West Journal (December 1994), pp. 7?8
- Chekhov, Shakespeare, the Ensemble and the Company; Peter Hall interviewed by Patrick Miles
New Theatre Quarterly, 11, no.43 (1995), pp. 203?10
- Chekhov on the English Stage
, in Chekhov and World Literature (1997), pp. 493?534
- Leavis and Bakhtin
, Cambridge Review, November 1998, pp. 42?46
- A Conversation with Bakhtin
, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 36, no.4, October 2000, pp. 438?49
- Cheshire Cats in the Theatre: A Translation and Fringe Experience
, New Theatre Quarterly, November 2000, pp. 359?63
- Early Chekhov: The Making of a Totalitarian Consensus
, Slavonica, 14 (2008), no.1, pp. 18?43
- Chekhov at 150: The "Hampstead Connection"
, The London Magazine, June/July 2010, pp. 98?102
- Joseph Brodsky in Leningrad
, Poetry Nation Review, May?June 2019, pp. 17?20
References
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"Patrick Miles: Biography"
.
patrickmileswriter.co.uk
. Retrieved
11 February
2020
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Miles, Patrick (2000). "A Conversation with Bakhtin".
Forum for Modern Language Studies, 36, No.4, October 2000
. pp.438-49.
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Miles, Patrick (2019). "Emigration".
Poetry Nation Review, 247, May?June 2019
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Jones, Charlotte (2019). "Laughing Philosopher".
The Times Literary Supplement, 18 October
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Brockliss, Laurence (2019). "[Review]".
The London Magazine, June/July 2019
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Pursglove, Michael (2019). "[Review]".
East-West Review, 17, no.3, issue 49
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Marber, Patrick (2015).
Three Days in the Country
. p.vii: Faber & Faber.
ISBN
978-0-571-32770-6
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