Young Russian Writers in Conversation: Part 1, Drama

In this session, Fiona Bell will conduct a twenty-minute interview with the Russian playwright Olga Ezhova, whom Bell has translated. They will discuss the playwright’s experience writing her 2019 play, Sisters, for which she explored Russian radical feminist chat boards to research the group’s beliefs and lexicon, as well as Bell’s experience translating the play into English. The interview will be prerecorded in Russian and will be streamed with English-language subtitles.

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Moderator

Fiona Bell is a literary translator and scholar of Russian literature. Her translation of Nataliya Meshchaninova’s Stories received a 2020 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant. She is a PhD student in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.

Presenter

Olga Ezhova (b. 1986) is a playwright from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her satire Sisters was featured at the 2019 Lyubimovka Festival for Young Playwrights. She has written several other one-act comedies and plays.