Antonina W. Bouis

Antonina W. Bouis is a German literary translator from Russian to English. She has been called "the best literary translator from Russian" by ''Publishers Weekly''.

Life

Born in West Germany, Bouis was educated in the United States. She has degrees from Barnard College and Columbia University.Baklanov, ''Forever Nineteen'', 1989, p.171

Translations

* ''Roadside Picnic.'' A Novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1977.
* ''Mahomet, Mahmed, Mamish. A Novel'' by Chinghiz Gusseinov. New York: Macmillan, 1978.
* ''Nocturne ravels of the Dilettantes' by Bulat Okudzhava. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
* ''Testimony he Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich' by Solomon Volkov. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
* '' Professor Dowell's Head'', by Alexander Belyaev. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1980.
* ''Wild Berries'' by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1984.
* (tr. with Albert Todd and Yevgeny Yevtushenko) ''Almost at the end'' by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. New York: H. Holt, 1987.
* '' Danilov, the Violist'' by Vladimir Orlov. William Morrow and Co, 1987.
* ''Forever Nineteen.'' A Novel by Grigory Baklanov. New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1989.
* ''The Suitcase'' by Sergei Dovlatov. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.
* ''Moscow and beyond, 1986-1989'' by Andrei Sakharov. New York: Knopf, 1991.
* ''Fatal half measures : the culture of democracy in the Soviet Union'' by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1991.
* ''Fear'' by Anatoli Rybakov. Boston: Little, Brown, 1992.
* ''Don't Die Before You're Dead'' by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. New York: Random House, 1995.
* ''Dust and Ashes'' by Anatoli Rybakov. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996.
* ''A letter for Daria'' by Ekaterina Gordeeva. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998.
* ''The world of Andrei Sakharov: a Russian physicist's path to freedom'' by Gennady Gorelik. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
* ''Shostakovich and Stalin : the extraordinary relationship between the great composer and the brutal dictator'' by Solomon Volkov. New York: Knopf, 2004.
* ''Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia'' by Yegor Gaidar. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007.
* ''Alexander II : The Last Great Tsar'' by Edvard Radzinsky. New York: Free Press, 2005.
* ''Woman with a Movie Camera: My Life as a Russian Filmmaker'' by Marina Goldovskaya. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
* (tr. with Jamey Gambrell) ''White walls: collected stories'' by Tatyana Tolstaya. New York: New York Review Books, 2007.
* ''The magical chorus: a history of Russian culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn'' by Solomon Volkov. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
* '' A Dog's Heart'' by Mikhail Bulgakov. Oneworld Classics Ltd., 2011.
* ''Romanov riches : Russian writers and artists under the tsars'' by Solomon Volkov. New York: Knopf, 2011.
* ''Russia: A Long View'' by Yegor Gaidar. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012.
* ''Oblivion'' by Sergei Lebedev. new vessel press, 2016
* ''The Year of the Comet'' by Sergei Lebedev. New Vessel press, 2014

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Russian–English translators
Literary translators
20th-century American translators
20th-century American women writers
Barnard College alumni
Columbia University alumni
21st-century American women

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