Guest Interview: Translator Marian Schwartz on Playing a Part

Marian SchwartzBy Avery Fischer Udagawa
For Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Cynsation

Marian Schwartz is a master translator of Russian literature into English. Active in PEN and past president of the American Literary Translators Association, she has translated more than seventy books including the bestseller The Last Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky and a re-translation of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

Recently she has added to her oeuvre the YA novel Playing a Part by Daria Wilke, edited by Emily Clement an...