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British academic and translator (born 1942)
Patrick Donald Rayfield
OBE (born 12 February 1942,
Oxford
) is an English academic and Emeritus Professor of
Russian
and
Georgian
at
Queen Mary University of London
.
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He is an author of books about
Russian
and
Georgian
literature, and about
Joseph Stalin
and his
secret police
. He is also a series editor for books about Russian writers and
intelligentsia
. He has translated
Georgian
,
Russian
and
Uzbek
poets and prose writers.
Bibliography
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Translations from Russian
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- Dead Souls
, translation of
Gogol
's 1842 novel (Garnett Press, 2008; New York Review Books, 2012)
- Kolyma Stories
(first half), translation of
Varlam Shalamov
's stories (New York Review Books, 2018)
- Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories
(New York Review Books, 2020)
- Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Selected Stories of
Nikolai Leskov
(New York Review Books, 2020)
Translations from Georgian
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Translations from Uzbek
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