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Michael Scammell
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Michael Scammell was born in England in 1935.
He has translated the work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir
Nabokov, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, among many others. In 1985,
Scammell's biography of Solzhenitsyn won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and an English PEN Center prize.
Scammell now teaches courses on nonfiction, translation, and biography
in the Writing Division of the School of the Arts at Columbia. He is a
former President of PEN American Center and a Vice-President of
International PEN. He writes regularly for The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, and The New Republic.
He is currently completing the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler, Cosmic Reporter: the Life and Times of Arthur Koestler, which will be published in 2006.
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WORLD VOICES EVENTS
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Thursday, April 27 at 2:00
Exiles in America |
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Selected Works & Translations
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Cosmic Reporter, the Life and Times of Arthur Koestler, 2006
Nothing Is Lost: Selected Poems, Edvard Kocbek, 2004
The Solzhenitsyn Files, 1995
Solzhenitsyn, a Biography, 1985.
To Build a Castle, Vladimir Bukovsky, 1978
Unofficial Art from the Soviet Union, 1977
Russia's Other Writers, 1970
Contemporary Slovene Poetry, an anthology in collaboration with Veno Taufer, 1970
The Blue Guide to Yugoslavia: the Adriatic Coast, 1969
My Testimony, Anatoly Marchenko, 1969
The Defense, Vladimir Nabokov, 1964
Childhood, Boyhood & Youth, Leo Tolstoy, 1964
Crime & Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1963
The Gift, Vladimir Nabokov, 1963
Cities & Years, Konstantin Fedin, 1962
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