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The best-selling, award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina discuss the translation process and their newest work on Doctor Zhivago.

About Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Together, Pevear and Volokhonsky have translated seventeen books from the Russian, including works by Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov and Fyodor Dostoevsky.  They are presently at work on Doctor Zhivago.

Their translation of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov received the PEN Translation Prize for 1991; their translation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was awarded the same prize in 2002, and was also chosen as a selection of Oprah's book club.  In 2006 they were awarded the first Efim Etkind International Translation Prize by the European Graduate School of St. Petersburg.  Pevear is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of comparative literature at the American University of Paris. They are married and live in France.

Read a profile of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky from the New Yorker.

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