Richard Pevear

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Richard Pevear is an American-born poet and translator who frequently collaborates with his wife, Larissa Volokhonsky, on translations of works mainly in Russian, but also French, Italian and Greek. The husband-and-wife team live in Paris and are said to work in a two-step process: Volokhonsky, a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, prepares a literal translation of the Russian text, and Pevear adapts the literal into polished and stylistically appropriate English. Pevear and Volokhonsky are currently preparing a translation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, due for publication in late 2007 by Everyman's Library.^[1]

Pevear was born in Boston and earned a bachelor's degree from Allegheny College and a master's degree from the University of Virginia. As of 2006, he teaches classes at the American University of Paris.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

• The Brothers Karamazov (1990)
• Crime and Punishment (1992)
• Notes From Underground (1993)
• Demons (1994)
• The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (1997)
• The Idiot (2002)
• The Adolescent (2003)
• The Double (2005)
• The Gambler (2005)

Mikhail Bulgakov

• The Master and Margarita (1997)

Nikolai Gogol

• The Collected Tales (1998)
• Dead Souls (1996)

Leo Tolstoy

• Anna Karenina (2000)
• War and Peace (2008 estimated)

Anton Chekhov

• Stories of Anton Chekhov (2000) - 30 short stories in total. ISBN 0553381008
• The Complete Short Novels (2000)

Alexandre Dumas, père

• The Three Musketeers (2006)

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[edit] External links

• http://www.aup.fr/faculty/dept/clen/pevear.htm