Richard Pevear

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April 21, 1943 in Waltham, Massachusetts, The United States

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Poetry, Translation

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Richard Pevear is a poet and translator. He is best known for his translations in collaboration with his Russian-born wife, Larissa Volokhonsky, on literature principally in Russian. He has also translated works from the French, Italian and Greek.

Pevear earned a B.A. degree from Allegheny College in 1964, and a M.A. degree from the University of Virginia in 1965. He has taught at the University of New Hampshire, The Cooper Union, Mount Holyoke College, Columbia University, and the University of Iowa. In 1998, he joined the faculty of the American University of Paris (AUP), where he teaches courses in Russian literature and translation. In 2007, he was named Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at AUP.

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Average rating: 4.20 · 83,327 ratings · 6,773 reviews · 37 distinct works

	Translating Music (Cahier Series) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	The Gods 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Our King Has Horns by Richard Pevear, Robert Payevsky (Illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1987	My rating:
	Night Talk and Other Poems 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1977 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mister Cat-and-a-Half by Richard Pevear, Robert Rayevsky (Illustrator) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1986	My rating:
	The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 48,204 ratings — published 1879 — 429 editions	My rating:
	Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) 4.19 avg rating — 5,997 ratings — published 1872 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky 4.09 avg rating — 110,607 ratings — published 1866 — 645 editions	My rating:
	The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 22,477 ratings — published 1868 — 331 editions	My rating:
	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear (Translator), John Bayley (Preface) 3.96 avg rating — 94,427 ratings — published 1869 — 75 editions	My rating:

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