Oliver Ready

Oliver Ready’s translations include Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment for Penguin Classics and Gogol’s And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon: Essential Stories (Pushkin Press). From contemporary Russian fiction, he has translated three novels by Vladimir Sharov—Before and During, The Rehearsals, and Be as Children—and two volumes by Yuri Buida (all published by Dedalus). He is completing a book about Nikolai Gogol, and teaches Russian at the University of Oxford.

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