Read Russia Prize 2015

May 08 2015

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The annual Read Russia Prize is awarded in New York each May for works of Russian literature in English translation. The ceremony will take place at the end of Book Expo America.

There are more than 20 nominees. The shortlist will be announced on May 20th.

AUTOR	TITLE	TRANSLATOR
Mikhail Bulgakov	Don Quixote	Margarita Marinova
Zakhar Prilepin	Sankya	Mariya Gusev and Jeff Parker with Alina Ryabovolova
Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	Rosamund Bartlett
Vladimir Lorchenkov	The Good Life Elsewhere	Ross Ufberg
Vladimir Sharov	Before and During	Oliver Ready
Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	Marian Schwartz
Sergei Lukyanenko	The Genome	Liv Bliss
Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Crime and Punishment	Oliver Ready
Alexander Pushkin	The Captain’s Daughter	Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
Vladimir Kozlov	USSR: Diary of a Perestroika Kid	Andrea Gregovich
Fyodor Tyutchev	Selected Poems	John Dewey
Liudmila Petrushevskaya	There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children Until They Moved Back In	Anna Summers
Sergei Dovlatov	Pushkin Hills	Katherine Dovlatov
Andrei Bitov	The Symmetry Teacher	Polly Gannon
Andrei Gelasimov	Rachel	Marian Schwartz
Nikolai Gogol	The Night Before Christmas	Anna Summers
Lilianna Lungina	Word for Word	Polly Gannon and Ast A. Moore
Vladislav Khodasevich	Selected Poems	Peter Daniels
Andrei Sen-Senkov	Anatomical Theater	Ainsley Morse and Peter Golub
Nikolai Gogol	The Inspector	Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Mikhail Yeryomin	Selected Poems, 1959-2009	J. Kates
Anna Starobinets	The Icarus Gland	James Rann
Lev Rubinstein	Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties	Philip Metres and Tatiana Tulchinsky

The 2015 ceremony will be held on Friday, May 29, at the Grolier Club in New York.

Professor Gary Saul Morson, author, translator, and Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University, will help present the awards to the winning translators and publishers. Professor Morson, whose popular classes at Northwestern on Russian literature touch hundreds of students every year, also will present a special new lecture: "Because Everyone Needs a Little Russian Literature."

Read Russia, founded in 2012, is a initiative based in Moscow, New York, and London that celebrates Russian literature and culture. Through innovative programs, projects, and events supporting the English-language translation and publication of Russian works, Read Russia gives international audiences fresh opportunities to engage – in person, on screen, and online – with Russia’s literary leaders and heritage.

Find more information at the web-site.

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