Andrew Bromfield is a British editor and translator of Russian works. He is a founding editor of the

Russian literature Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia, its Russian diaspora, émigrés, and to Russian language, Russian-language literature. Major contributors to Russian literature, as well as English for instance, are authors of different e ...

journal ''Glas'', and has translated into English works by

Boris Akunin Grigori Chkhartishvili (; ka, გრიგორი ჩხარტიშვილი), better known by his pen name Boris Akunin (, born 20 May 1956), is a Georgian and Russian writer residing in the United Kingdom. He is best known as a write ...

Vladimir Voinovich Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich (; 26 September 1932 – 27 July 2018) was a Russian writer and former Soviet dissident, and the "first genuine comic writer" produced by the Soviet system. Among his most well-known works are the satirical epic ' ...

Irina Denezhkina Irina Denezhkina (; born October 31, 1981) is a Russian controversial writer, notable for a vulgar style of her works, which is explained by some as a reflection of the modern reality, as of the Millennial Generation (e.g. her most famous collected ...

Victor Pelevin Victor Olegovich Pelevin ( rus, Виктор Олегович Пелевин, p=ˈvʲiktər ɐˈlʲeɡəvʲɪtɕ pʲɪˈlʲevʲɪn; born 22 November 1962) is a Russian fiction writer. His novels include ''Omon Ra'' (1992), ''The Life of Insects' ...

, and

Sergei Lukyanenko Sergei Vasilyevich Lukyanenko (, ; born 11 April 1968) is a Russian science fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian. His works often feature intense action-packed plots, interwoven with the moral dilemma of keeping one's humanity while ...

, among other writers.

Bibliography (as a translator)

:Stories and novellas *"

The Blue Lantern ''The Blue Lantern'' () is a 1918 German silent drama film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten and Ferdinand von Alten.Elsaesser & Wedel p. 193 The film's sets were designed by the art director Art director is a title for a ...

" *" Bulldozer Driver's Day" *"

Crystal World ''Crystal World'' is the debut studio album by Scottish musician Marnie, self-released on 11 June 2013 through the site PledgeMusic. The album was produced in 2012 in Reykjavík, Iceland, by her Ladytron band-mate Daniel Hunt in collaboration ...

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Hermit and Six-Toes ''Hermit and Six Toes'' () is a novella by Victor Pelevin, published in 1990 in Russia and translated by Andrew Bromfield in 1996. Plot The main characters of the story are two broiler chickens named Hermit and Six-Toes, who are raised for sl ...

" *" The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII" *"

Mid-Game ''Mid-Game'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991. Plot In the story, Pelevin's theme of the existence and destruction of borders and the emergence of alternative, including absurd, reality is clearly evident. The stor ...

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News from Nepal ''News from Nepal'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991. Plot In the story The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Pelevin translates it into the Soviet language. The heroes of the story are dead, and they are read an instruction bo ...

" *" Nika" *"

The Ontology of Childhood ''The Ontology of Childhood'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991. Plot In the story the author undertakes an artistic study of the process of formation of the child, starting from the moment of awareness of himself as a ...

" *" Prince of Gosplan" *"

Sleep Sleep is a state of reduced mental and physical activity in which consciousness is altered and certain Sensory nervous system, sensory activity is inhibited. During sleep, there is a marked decrease in muscle activity and interactions with th ...

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Tai Shou Chuan USSR (A Chinese folk tale) ''Tai Shou Chuan USSR'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991. Plot The story is constructed in a pseudo-historical form and is a deconstruction of real events. And it is a reference to the Chinese Tang dynasty story "The G ...

" *" The Tambourine of the Upper World" *" The Tarzan Swing" *" Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream" *"

A Werewolf Problem In Central Russia ''A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia'' () is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991 in Russian. In 1998, New Directions Publishing published a short story collection, 'A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories'. ...

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The Yellow Arrow ''The Yellow Arrow'' () is an allegorical novella by Victor Pelevin written in 1993. It was published in different collections of works of the author. Plot The hero of the story is Andrei, a passenger on the nonstop express train, tormented by t ...

" :Novels *"

The Life of Insects ''The Life of Insects '' () is a novel by Victor Pelevin first published in 1993. The novel consists of 15 chapters. Plot The novel is set in the early 1990s in the Crimea. All the characters in the novel are both human (racketeers, drug addic ...

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Omon Ra ''Omon Ra'' () is a short novel by Russian writer Victor Pelevin, published in 1992 by the Tekst Publishing House in Moscow. It was the first novel by Pelevin, who until then was known for his short stories. Pelevin traces the absurd fate of the ...

" *" Clay Machine Gun" ("Chapayev and Void", "Buddhas Little Finger") *"

Homo Zapiens ''Babylon'', known in the US as ''Homo Zapiens'', is the third novel by Russian author Victor Pelevin. Published in 1999, it tells the story of Babylen Tatarsky, a Moscow ' creative' and advertising copywriter. The story deals with themes of p ...

" ("Babylon", "

Generation "П" ''Babylon'', known in the US as ''Homo Zapiens'', is the third novel by Russian author Victor Pelevin. Published in 1999, it tells the story of Babylen Tatarsky, a Moscow ' creative' and advertising copywriter. The story deals with themes of p ...

) *" The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur" *" The Sacred Book Of The Werewolf"

Dmitry Glukhovsky Dmitry Alekseyevich Glukhovsky (, born 12 June 1979) is a Russian author, best known for the science fiction novel '' Metro 2033'' and its sequels. As a journalist, Dmitry Glukhovsky has worked for Euronews, RT in its early years, and others. ...

*" Metro 2034" *"

Metro 2035 ''Metro 2035'' () is a 2015 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. Glukhovsky's third book in the core ''Metro'' series, it serves as a sequel to ''Metro 2033'' and '' Metro 2034''. Like previous novels in the ...

*" The Winter Queen" *" Murder on the Leviathan" *"

The Turkish Gambit ''The Turkish Gambit'' () is the second novel from the Erast Fandorin series of historical whodunnit, historical detective novels by Russian author Boris Akunin. It was published in Russia in 1998. The English translation by Andrew Bromfield was ...

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The Death of Achilles The Death of Achilles () is the fourth novel in the Erast Fandorin historical detective series by Russian writer Boris Akunin. Its subtitle is ''детектив о наемном убийце'' ("a detective novel about a murderer-for-hire"). ...

" *" Special Assignments" *"

The State Counsellor ''The State Counsellor'' (, State Councillor (Russia), the 5th civil grade in the Table of Ranks of Imperial Russia) is the sixth novel in the Erast Fandorin Historical mystery, historical detective series by Russian writer Boris Akunin. It is su ...

" *" The Coronation (novel)" *" Pelagia and the White Bulldog" *" Pelagia and the Black Monk" *" Pelagia and the Red Rooster"

Night Watch Night Watch or Nightwatch may refer to: Being on duty at night * The nighttime shift worked by a security guard (night watchman) * Watchman (law enforcement), organized groups of men to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement * One of ...

" *" Day Watch" *" Twilight Watch" *" Last Watch" *" The New Watch" *" Sixth Watch"

Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( ; rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪdʑ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel ''The M ...

*" Dead Man's Memoir" *"

Dog's Heart ''Cuore di cane'' (, International title - ''Dog's Heart'') is a 1976 in film, 1976 joint Italian-German comedy film directed by Alberto Lattuada based on a Heart of a Dog, novel ''Heart of a Dog'' by Mikhail Bulgakov adapted by Mario Gallo (pro ...

" Other works *" Incidences" by

Daniil Kharms Daniil Ivanovich Kharms (; – 2 February 1942) was a Russian avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist in the early Soviet era. Early years Kharms was born as Daniil Yuvachev in Saint Petersburg, then the capital of the Ru ...

*" Very Short Stories" by

Genrikh Sapgir Genrikh Sapgir (; November 20, 1928, Biysk, Altai Krai, Russia – October 7, 1999, Moscow) was a Russian poet and fiction writer of Jewish descent. Biography He was born in Biysk to a family of a Moscow engineer on a business trip. The fam ...

*" Monday Starts on Saturday" by

Boris and Arkady Strugatsky The brothers Arkady Strugatsky (28 August 1925 – 12 October 1991) and Boris Strugatsky (14 April 1933 – 19 November 2012) were Soviet and Russian science-fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers. Their notable works i ...

Rachmaninov Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of ...

" by Nikolai Bazhanov *" The Law of Eternity" by

Nodar Dumbadze Nodar Dumbadze ( ka, ნოდარ დუმბაძე, July 14, 1928 – September 4, 1984) was a Georgian writer. Biography Born in Guria, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Tbilisi State University in 1950. His first poems an ...

and Mikhail Krakovsky *"

War and Peace ''War and Peace'' (; pre-reform Russian: ; ) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the work comprises both a fictional narrative and chapters in which Tolstoy discusses history and philosophy. An ...

" by

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; ,Throughout Tolstoy's whole life, his name was written as using Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution re ...

*" Glas: New Russian Writing" magazine (ed. by Natalia Perova) *" Lizka and Her Men" by Alexander Ikonnikov *" The Good Angel of Death" by

Andrey Kurkov Andrii Yuriyovych Kurkov (, ; born 23 April 1961) is a Ukrainian author and public intellectual who writes in Russian and Ukrainian. He is the author of 19 novels, including the bestselling '' Death and the Penguin'', nine books for children, a ...

*" Maxim and Fyodor" by

Vladimir Shinkarev Vladimir (, , pre-1918 orthography: ) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, widespread throughout all Slavic nations in different forms and spellings. The earliest record of a person with the name is Vladimir of Bulgaria (). Etymology T ...

Reasons for Living In the most general terms, a reason is a consideration in an argument which justifies or explains an action, a belief, an attitude, or a fact. ''Normative reasons'' are what people appeal to when making arguments about what people should do or be ...

" by Dmitry Bakin *" Witch's Tears" by

Nina Sadur Nina Nikolayevna Sadur (, (born Nina Nikolayevna Kolesnikova; 15 October 1950 – 12 November 2023), also known as Nína Mikháilovna Sadúr, was a Russian prose writer and playwright. She was known for being "one of the leading proponents of th ...

*" Headcrusher (novel)" by Alexander Garros and Aleksei Evdokimov

Bromfield about his work

:''"With two languages as different as Russian and English, even many of the basic forms of language cannot be rendered in a simplistically 'literal' manner. But my effort is always directed to 'recreating the author' in English, not to authoring a text of my own. I'm not one of those translators who think that the translator owns the text and can remodel it to suit himself."'' :''"My job is to provide the readers of a translation with an experience which is as close as possible to the experience that the author provides to readers of the original — the author's authentic voice and relationship to his characters (and readers) should come across in the same way in a translation. Also, the translated text should, ideally, read just as naturally as the original (and conversely, if an author doesn't read comfortably in the original, that should be reflected in the translation)."'' :''"After the effort of coming up with appropriate equivalents for the elements of style required to convey a modern author's voice and intonation, what I am eventually left with is a whole range of points that require special decisions — like cultural references that are entirely foreign and require explanation or sub-textual assumptions of shared experiences that don't extend from Moscow as far as London (not to mention New York). That's where the ultimate difficulties arise, in deciding which solution to adopt — ignore, modify, omit or substitute."''

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list of works by Bromfield
Analysis of Andrew Bromfield's "Night Watch" translation
by M. Desyatova (in Russian)

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