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Larissa Volokhonsky

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born
St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
gender
female

genre
Translation


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Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian: Лариса Волохонская) is a Russian-born translator who frequently collaborates with her American-born husband, Richard Pevear, on translations of works mainly in Russian, but also French, Italian, and Greek. Their translations have been nominated three times and twice won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov). Their translation of Dostoevsky's The Idiot also won the first Efim Etkind Translation Prize.


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Average rating: 4.23 · 132,776 ratings · 8,375 reviews · 28 distinct works · Similar authors
The Brothers Karamazov
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4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 78,583 ratings — published 1878 — 487 editions
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Demons
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 11,005 ratings — published 1872 — 231 editions
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Crime and Punishment
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 192,488 ratings — published 1866 — 755 editions
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The Idiot
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 38,170 ratings — published 1868 — 362 editions
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Anna Karenina
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 184,031 ratings — published 1877 — 624 editions
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The Master and Margarita
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4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 60,698 ratings — published 1966 — 292 editions
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich an...
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 5,390 ratings — published 1886 — 63 editions
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Dead Souls (Everyman's Libr...
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 19,818 ratings — published 1842 — 266 editions
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Doctor Zhivago
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 31,090 ratings — published 1957 — 184 editions
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War and Peace
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 79,004 ratings — published 1869 — 411 editions
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