David McDuff
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David McDuff (born 1945, Sale, Cheshire, England) is a Scottish publicist.
He attended the University of Edinburgh, where he studied German and Russian. After living for some time in the Soviet Union, Denmark, Iceland, and the United States, he eventually settled in the United Kingdom, where he worked for several years as a co-editor of the literary magazine Stand. He then moved to London, where he began his career as a literary translator.
McDuff's translations include both foreign poetry and prose, including poems by Joseph Brodsky and Tomas Venclova, and novels including Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
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