Autore: 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.