About the Translators-
Richard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy,
Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky, and Henri Volohonsky, as well as
two books of poetry. He has received fellowships or grants for
translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram
Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, and the French Ministry of
Culture.
Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad. She has translated works
by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John
Meyendorff into Russian. Together, Pevear and Volokhonsky have
translated Dead Souls and The Collected Tales by Nikolai Gogol, and
The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Notes from
Underground, Demons, and The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. They were
awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their
version of The Brothers Karamazov, and more recently Demons was one
of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in
France.
“Nothing is outside Dostoevsky’s province. . . . Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading.” —Virginia Woolf
"Nothing is outside Dostoevsky's province. . . . Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading." -Virginia Woolf
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