Viktor Petrovich Golyshev (; born April 26, 1937) is a well-known

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translator. His translations include '' Light in August'', ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'', ''

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'', '' Theophilus North'', ''1984'', ''Other Voices, Other Rooms'', '' Set This House on Fire'', ''Pulp'', and others. He has won the Foreign Literature and Illuminator awards.english.russ.ru Yelena Kalashnikova. "A wretched book cannot be translated well…"
He has said about modern American literature, "It isn't quite worthy of consideration. It has almost nothing to say about life."

''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix''

Golyshev initially scoffed at an offer to translate the fifth book in

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's bestselling series ("Hell no, what am I, 8 years old?").CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
However, he subsequently joined a team of translators employed by the Russian publisher of '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' after complaints of poor translation.The Moscow Times
/ref> He has not been part of the translating team for any of the other ''Harry Potter'' books.

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1937 births 20th-century Russian translators 21st-century Russian translators Living people Writers from Moscow Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni Academic staff of the National University of Science and Technology MISiS English–Russian translators Translators from English {{Russia-translator-stub