Antonina Bouis Explained

Antonina W. Bouis is a literary translator from Russian to English. She has been called "the best literary translator from Russian" by Publishers Weekly.^[1]

Life

Born in West Germany, Bouis was educated in the United States. She has degrees from Barnard College and Columbia University.^[2]

Translations

• Roadside Picnic. A Novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1977.
• Mahomet, Mahmed, Mamish. A Novel by Chinghiz Gusseinov. New York: Macmillan, 1978.
• Nocturne [Travels of the Dilettantes] by Bulat Okudzhava. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
• Testimony [The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich] by Solomon Volkov. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
• Professor Dowell's Head, by Alexander Belyaev. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1980.
• Wild Berries by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1984.
• (tr. with Albert Todd and Yevgeny Yevtushenko) Almost at the end by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. New York: H. Holt, 1987.
• Danilov, the Violist by Vladimir Orlov. William Morrow and Co, 1987.
• Forever Nineteen. A Novel by Grigory Baklanov. New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1989.
• The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.
• Moscow and beyond, 1986-1989 by Andrei Sakharov. New York: Knopf, 1991.
• Fatal half measures : the culture of democracy in the Soviet Union by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1991.
• Fear by Anatoli Rybakov. Boston: Little, Brown, 1992.
• Don't Die Before You're Dead by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. New York: Random House, 1995.
• Dust and Ashes by Anatoli Rybakov. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996.
• A letter for Daria by Ekaterina Gordeeva. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998.
• The world of Andrei Sakharov: a Russian physicist's path to freedom by Gennady Gorelik. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Shostakovich and Stalin : the extraordinary relationship between the great composer and the brutal dictator by Solomon Volkov. New York: Knopf, 2004.
• Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia by Yegor Gaidar. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007.
• Alexander II : The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky. New York: Free Press, 2005.
• Woman with a Movie Camera: My Life as a Russian Filmmaker by Marina Goldovskaya. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
• (tr. with Jamey Gambrell) White walls: collected stories by Tatyana Tolstaya. New York: New York Review Books, 2007.
• The magical chorus: a history of Russian culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn by Solomon Volkov. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
• A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov. Oneworld Classics Ltd., 2011.
• Romanov riches : Russian writers and artists under the tsars by Solomon Volkov. New York: Knopf, 2011.
• Russia: A Long View by Yegor Gaidar. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012.
• Oblivion by Sergei Lebedev. new vessel press, 2016
• The Year of the Comet by Sergei Lebedev. New Vessel press, 2014

Notes and References

1. http://adsakharov.narod.ru/Sakharov_Eng.html The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom
2. Baklanov, Forever Nineteen, 1989, p. 171