Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky a current-day husband and wife team are known for what type of contribution to literature?
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (, ) are a couple who are best known for their collaborative translations. Most of their translations are of works 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. Richard Pevear was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on 21 April 1943. Pevear earned a B.A. degree from Allegheny College in 1964, and a M.A.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky prose by her brother, Anri Volokhonsky (published in: Modern Poetry in Translation, New series. Ed. Daniel Weissbort. Vol 10, Winter 196, Grand Street,Spring 1989, ed. Ben Sonnenberg). Together with Emily Grossholz she translated several poems by Olga Sedakova (Hudson Review, Vol. 61, Issue 4, Winter 2009). Volokhonsky is mostly known for her work in collaboration with Richard Pevear on translation of Russian classics. Volokhonsky met Pevear in the United States in 1976 and they married six years later. The couple now live in Paris and have two trilingual children. Pevear and Volokhonsky began working together when Pevear was reading Dostoyevsky's