Rossica Young Translators Prize 2011 Judges
Andrew Bromfield is one of Britain’s leading translators. He was a founding editor of the Russian literature journal Glas, and has translated many works by Russia’s leading contemporary writers, including Boris Akunin, Victor Pelevin, and Sergei Lukyanenko. He is currently working on a translation of Lev Danilkin’s Gagarin.
Pamela Davidson is Professor of Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at UCL. Her considerable body of research has covered such topics as the reception of Dante in Russia, the life and poetry of Vyacheslav Ivanov, the twentieth-century renaissance of classical scholarship in Russia, and demons and prophets in Russian literature.
Katharine Hodgson is Associate Professor of Russian at the University of Exeter. She has written extensively on twentieth-century Russian poetry, researching in particular the poetry of the Second World War and the poetry of Olga Berggolts. Her current project is a re-examination of the canon of twentieth-century poetry.
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