Contributor

Marian Schwartz

Contributor

Marian Schwartz

Marian Schwartz is a prize-winning translator of Russian fiction, history, biography, criticism, and fine art. She is the principal English translator of the works of Nina Berberova and has translated several Russian classics. Her most recent translations are Mikhail Shishkin’s Maidenhair (Open Letter Books), Daria Wilke’s Playing a Part (Arthur A....

Levine), Venedikt Erofeev’s Walpurgis Night (Yale University Press), and a new translation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Schwartz is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association, and she is an active member of the PEN Translation Committee and the Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association’s Literary Special Interest Group.

From “2017”

By Olga Slavnikova

That night, under the muffled, machine-like sound of the rain, the professor dreamed that this woman had come to him.

Translated from Russian by Marian Schwartz

Calligraphy Lesson

By Mikhail Shishkin

Good God, what criminals? They're ordinary people.

Translated from Russian by Marian Schwartz

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Marian Schwartz

Marian Schwartz

Articles by Marian Schwartz

From “2017”

Calligraphy Lesson