Oct 11, 2020
Online
Young Russian Writers in Conversation: Part 2
Young Russian Writers in Conversation: Part 2
This interview is Part 2 of a series showcasing young female Russian writers and their translators, enabling the audience of virtual ALTA to appreciate both sides of a translation process that involves collaborative moments.
In this session, translator Annie Fisher will hold a twenty-minute conversation with Russian writer Ksenia Buksha (b. 1983). Buksha has received accolades for her imagistic prose, her formal innovation, and her humor, yet she is also a prolific poet and artist who publishes almost as much online as she does on paper. Fisher and Buksha will discuss, with examples, the production and translation of Buksha’s multi- and transgeneric writing. The session will be prerecorded in Russian and will be streamed with English-language subtitles.
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Moderator
In 2019 Anne O. Fisher’s translations included Monitor-1 by Shura Burtin (winner of the inaugural True Story Award for long-form journalism); Nervous, a one-act play by Julia Lukshina (Asymptote); and poetry and prose by Ilya Danishevsky and Dmitry Kuzmin in Life Stories, Death Sentences: Contemporary Russian-Language LGBTQ+ Writing (In Translation).
Presenter
Ksenia Buksha was born in Leningrad in 1983. Trained as an economist, she has worked as a journalist, copywriter, and day trader. In 2014 The Freedom Factory won Russia’s National Bestseller award, while her novel Churov and Churbanov (2020) was recently shortlisted for the 2020 Big Book Award.