Rosamund Bartlett
Rosamund Bartlett is a writer, scholar, translator and lecturer specializing in Russian literature.[1]
Bartlett graduated from Durham University with a first-class degree in Russian.[2] She went on to complete a doctorate at Oxford.[3]
Rosamund Bartlett is the author of Tolstoy: A Russian Life (2010) and has translated Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (2014). She is also the author of Chekhov: Scenes from a Life (2004) and has translated two volumes of Anton Chekhov's short stories.[4]
As a translator, she published the first unexpurgated edition of Anton Chekhov's letters, and she was awarded the Chekhov 150th Anniversary Medal in 2010 by the Russian government for work her Chekhov Foundation has done in preserving the White Dacha, the writer's house in Yalta.
Selected works[]
- Tolstoy: A Russian Life
- Chekhov: Scenes from a Life
- Literary Russia: A Guide (co-authored with Anna Benn)
- Victory Over the Sun: The World's First Futurist Opera (co-edited with Sarah Dadswell)
- Shostakovich in Context (editor)
- Wagner and Russia (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)
As translator[]
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy for Oxford World's Classics
- About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov for Oxford World's Classics
- A Life in Letters, by Anton Chekhov for Penguin Classics (co-translator: Anthony Phillips)
- The Exclamation Mark, by Anton Chekhov for Hesperus Classics
- The Talisman and Other Tales by Viktoria Tokareva
References[]
- ^ Profile in Oxford University website
- ^ "Gazette, 1983/84". Durham University Library. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
- ^ "Bartlett, Rosamund". Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
- ^ Review of Tolstoy biography
External links[]
- Living people
- American biographers
- American women biographers
- American translators
- Alumni of St Cuthbert's Society, Durham
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- British translator stubs