About the Translators:
Richard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky, and Henri Volohonsky, as well as two books of poetry. He has received fellowships or grants for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the French Ministry of Culture.
Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad. She has translated works by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff into Russian. Together, Pevear and Volokhonsky have translated
Dead Souls and The Collected Tales by Nikolai Gogol,
The Complete Short Novels of Anton Chekhov, and
The Brothers Karamazov,
Crime and Punishment,
Notes from Underground,
Demons,
The Idiot, and
The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
They were awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their version of
The Brothers Karamazov, and more recently
Demons was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.
