Auteur: Alexei Ivanov

Richard Coombes has been a classicist, a musician, an international tax specialist, and now translates Russian-language literature (verse, prose, and song lyrics) into English. Richard »s recently published translations include Elena Dolgopyat »s short story collection Someone Else »s Life (« Chuzhaya zhizn »), published in 2023 by Glagoslav; other short stories by Elena Dolgopyat and poetry by Lyudmila Knyazeva, Dmitry Vodennikov and Tatyana Voltskaya in a variety of literary journals; poetry in the bilingual World War II poetry collection Poems from the Front (« Frontovaya lira »), published in Russia in 2021; and poetry in the bilingual anti-war anthology Disbelief, published in January 2023. A follow-up anthology by the « Disbelief » team, called Dislocation, will be published in 2024. Richard »s translation of Liza »s Waterfall (Pavel Basinsky »s documentary-thriller « Posmotrite na menya ») is complete and awaiting publication.