biography
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| (1940– )
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| biography:
| Translator, literary critic, and novelist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Known for his extensive critical analysis of Russian dissident writer Andrew Sinyavsky, he was a prolific translator of Russian and Polish texts, including the works of Soviet writer Vladimir Voinovich and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz. He was founder of Kontakt, a company specializing in Russian/American publishing, and was editor-in-chief of Governor Mario Cuomo's project to translate Abraham Lincoln's writings into Polish. Recipient of the 1971 Joseph Henry Jackson Award for fiction, his plots often involved cold war topics. |
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