Ann Pasternak Slater is a literary scholar and translator who was formerly a Fellow and Tutor at St. Anne's College, Oxford.
She has written and lectured on her uncle Boris Pasternak's translations into Russian of Shakespeare plays. She has translated A Vanished Present, the memoirs of her uncle Alexandr Pasternak (1893–1982), an architect, as well as Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man. She prepared the fourth edition of the Everyman complete English works of George Herbert, revising the edition of C. A. Patrides.[1]
She is the daughter of the late Lydia Pasternak Slater (1902–1989), chemist, translator and poet who was the youngest sister of the poet, translator and novelist Boris Pasternak (1890–1960). Her grandfather, the Russian Impressionist painter Leonid Pasternak, was a friend of Tolstoy's and illustrator or the novel Resurrection and several of Tolstoy's other works. She is married to Craig Raine, an English poet and critic.