Russian Translation Workshop, Part 1

Participants in the workshop are invited to bring short pieces or excerpts from longer works in any genre, at a stage in which these translations would benefit from discussion. We will draw on the workshop’s collective enthusiasm and expertise to address the particular challenges of each translation project. Format: Participants should prepare a .doc or .pdf file containing their translation, the original passage, and any context that may be helpful to know. If sharing texts in advance of a virtual workshop proves challenging, participants will share their texts live.

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Organizers

Elina Alter is a writer and translator in New York. Her translation of Alla Gorbunova’s It’s the End of the World, My Love, is forthcoming from Deep Vellum Books in 2022. She is an Oral History Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center and Co-Editor of Circumference Magazine. Josephine von Zitzewitz is a scholar of Russian literature and translator specializing in Russian poetry. She has held research and teaching positions at the Universities of Oxford, Bristol, Cambridge and Tromsø (Norway). Her translations have appeared in various journals, and she is Co-Editor of Young Russophonia (Words Without Borders, 2021).

Participants

Irina Sadovina translates mostly Russian-language works, such as a short story by Denis Osokin and a Holocaust survivor memoir by Svetlana-Kogan Rabinovich. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and another in Folklore. Coming from the minority ethnic community of the Meadow Mari, Sadovina is passionate about bringing diverse voices from Russia to the attention of Anglophone audiences. Grace Sewell is a junior at Swarthmore College with Honors majors in Russian and Spanish. She is also an alumna of the Yiddish Book Center’s 2021 Steiner Program. From 2020- 2021, she studied Russian to English translation at UW Milwaukee. She hopes to earn a PhD in Comparative Literature and practice translation professionally. Marianna Suleymanova has been translating in a variety of fields for fifteen years and is a native speaker of Russian and English. Suleymanova has three BAs in Linguistics, Russian, and Philosophy of Language from the Ohio State University. Suleymanova has primarily translated in the following industries: space, oil and gas, military, and government. Dominique Hoffman is Lecturer in Russian Literature and Culture. Independent research and translation. Tatiana Samsonova is a translator from English into Russian and back. She grew up in Russia and moved to Canada about 20 years ago. She has translated and published about 50 books into Russian, from Terry Pratchett to Margaret Atwood, and she is currently working on making some less-known Russian writers visible to English-reading audiences. Dmitri Manin is a physicist, programmer and poetry translator working in RU->EN, EN->RU and FR->RU. His published translations include, among others, J.M.Hopkins, Allen Ginsberg and Ted Hughes into Russian, N. Zabolotsky, A. Volohonsky and G. Sapgir into English. Jane Bugaeva translates Russian children’s literature and punny, whimsical texts for all ages. Anna Krushelnitskaya is a translator from Russian into English.