Michael Scammell
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Michael Scammell (born 1935) is an English author and translator of Slavic literature. He was educated at the University of Nottingham, and obtained a doctorate at Columbia University where he is currently a professor of writing.
Notable translations include Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift and The Defense (working with the author), Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, and Leo Tolstoy's Childhood, Boyhood and Youth. More recently he has translated the poetry of the Slovenian writer Edvard Kocbek in Nothing is Lost.
He has written biographies of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Arthur Koestler.
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