RYTA 2013 Judges
Oliver Ready studied modern languages (Russian and Italian) at Oxford University and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London, and wrote a Dphil entitled From Aleshkovsky to Galkovsky: The Praise of Folly in Russian Prose since 1960. Between his studies he has lived in Russia, teaching and working as a journalist in Moscow. He is also the translator of The Zero Train (Dedalus, 2001), and of Ilya Ehrenburg’s sketches of Paris in the 1930s. He has most recently translated Crime and Punishment for a new Penguin Classics edition.
Rosamund Bartlett has published several books including Wagner and Russia, Shostakovich in Context, Chekhov: Scenes from a Life and Tolstoy: a Russian Life, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She also has extensive experience as a translator. Apart from her translation of the libretto for the Futurist opera Victory over the Sun, she has published the first unexpurgated edition of Chekhov’s letters, and two anthologies of his stories, one of which was shortlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She has held a number of senior academic posts, most recently at the European University Institute in Fiesole, where she was a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, and is the Founding Director of the Anton Chekhov Foundation, set up to preserve Chekhov’s house in Yalta.
Daniel M. Jaffe is a translator, writer and teacher, whose creative writing workshops for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program led to him receiveing the 2006 Outstanding Instructor Award in Online Writing Education. Daniel's translation of the Russian-Israeli bestselling novel, Here Comes the Messiah! by Dina Rubina, appeared in 2000, and his short translations from Russian and Spanish have been published in Toronto Slavic Quarterly (Canada), Rossica (UK), Beacons, Translation, and elsewhere. Daniel's novel, The Limits of Pleasure (2001), was a Finalist for one of ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards, and has been re-published by Bear Bones Books of Lethe Press (2010).
