FOUND IN TRANSLATION
This special issue is devoted to the Rossica Translation Prize, awarded this year for the second time.
CONTENTS
THE ROSSICA PRIZE, 2007
- The Source of Literacy
The Alphabet of Saints Kirill and Methodios - The Panel of Judges; Judges’ Statement
- The Rossica Prize Committee
- Tribute to Boris Yeltsin, first President of Russia
- Judging Rossica: Elaine Feinstein, Peter France
EXCERPTS FROM THE WINNING AND SHORTLISTED WORKS
- Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, “Autobiography of a Corpse”
- Originality, Simplicity, Brilliance: Joanne Turnbull
- Hamid Izmailov, The Railway
- Parallel Lines: Robert Chandler, Elisabeth Chandler, Hamid Izmailov
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
- Correcting a Classic: Anthony Briggs
- Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- The Fabric of Life: Hugh Aplin
- Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, A 1935 American Travelogue
- The Funniest Soviet Writers take a Serious Look at the USA: Anne O. Fisher
- Ludmila Ulitskaya, “The Queen of Spades”
- On Eluding False Certainties: Arch Tait
- The Value and Values of Literary Translation
Amanda Hopkinson
- Russian Literature into English
Peter France - Traditore Tradutore
Vladimir Nabokov on the translator’s craft - Borrow in Russia: A Writer in the Making
John Crowfoot
REVIEWS
- 14 Red Huts: Staging Platonov
Robert Chandler - Keeping Faith as Worlds Collide
Reflections on a Conference at Cumberland Lodge - The Wallace Collection and Anatole Demidoff