Ann Dunnigan

Ann Dunnigan was an American translator of 19th-century Russian literature, as well as a teacher and an actor.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Dunnigan translated into English several major works of Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Ilya Tolstoy. New American Library variously published her translations of Tolstoy and Chekhov on their Signet Classics and Plume Books imprints. Prentice Hall published her translation of Dostoyevsky's Netochka Nezvanova in 1972.

Among Dunnigan's Tolstoy translations are War and Peace (1968) and Fables and Fairy Tales (1972). New American Library anthologized 26 of her translations of Chekhov's short stories and novellae in Anton Chekhov: Selected Stories (1960) and Ward Six and Other Stories (1965). Her translations of Chekhov's plays they compiled into a single volume, Chekhov: The Major Plays (1964), which featured Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard.

References

Staff writer (12 September 1997). "Ann Dunnigan, Actress and Translator, 87". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/12/arts/ann-dunnigan-actress-and-translator-87.html. Retrieved 20 May 2011.

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Works by or about Ann Dunnigan in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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Name	Dunnigan, Ann
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Short description	American translator of Russian literature; actor; teacher
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	5 September 1997
Place of death	Manhattan, New York, New York