Helen Constantine

Helen Constantine taught languages in schools until 2000, when she became a full-time translator. She has published three volumes of translated stories, Paris Tales, French Tales, and Paris Metro Tales and is currently editing a series of 'City Tales' for Oxford University Press. She has translated Mademoiselle de Maupin by Theophile Gautier and Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos for Penguin and The Wild Ass's Skin by Balzac for OUP. She is married to the writer David Constantine and with him edits the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.


Sasha Dugdale is a poet and translator. She has published three collections of her own poetry -- the most recent of these is Red House (Carcanet / OxfordPoets 2011) -- and two collections of Russian poetry in translation. She works with the Royal Court Theatre in London as an adviser on Russian New Writing and has translated over thirty plays from Russian. She lived in Moscow for five years in the 1990s and frequently returns there. She is currently editor of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation

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Anton Chekhov
Yurii Koval
Tat'yana Shchepkina-Kupernik
Nikolai Karamzin
Evgenii Grishkovets
Anton Chekhov
Igor Sutyagin
Vladimir Gilyarovskii
Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Boroditskaia
Ivan Shmelyov
Larisa Miller
Maria Galina