Larissa Volokhonsky

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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: 4.21 · 82,264 ratings · 6,675 reviews · 22 distinct works

	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:
	The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 35,912 ratings — published 1940 — 227 editions	My rating:
	The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 15,177 ratings — published 1886 — 164 editions	My rating:
	Dead Souls (Everyman's Library, #280) by Nikolai Gogol, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 10,211 ratings — published 1842 — 227 editions	My rating:
	Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky 3.96 avg rating — 20,400 ratings — published 1957 — 46 editions	My rating:
	What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) 3.57 avg rating — 448 ratings — published 1352 — 21 editions	My rating:

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