![]() ![]() Besides translating Russian classics, Pevear also translated from the French ( Alexandre Dumas, Yves Bonnefoy, Jean Starobinski), Italian ( Alberto Savinio), Spanish, and Greek ( Aias, by Sophocles, in collaboration with Herbert Golder). In 2007, he was named Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at AUP, and in 2009 he became Distinguished Professor Emeritus. In 1998, he joined the faculty of the American University of Paris (AUP), where he taught courses in Russian literature and translation. ![]() He has taught at the University of New Hampshire, The Cooper Union, Mount Holyoke College, Columbia University, and the University of Iowa. degree from the University of Virginia in 1965. degree from Allegheny College in 1964, and a M.A. ![]() Richard Pevear was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, on 21 April 1943. Their translation of Dostoevsky's The Idiot also won the first Efim Etkind Translation Prize. The couple's collaborative translations have been nominated three times and twice won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov). Individually, Pevear has also translated into English works from French, Italian, and Greek. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are literary translators best known for their collaborative English translations of classic Russian literature. Couple best known for their collaborative translations ![]()
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