Workshop with Translators & Teachers from Moscow Alexandra Borisenko & Victor Sonkin

Anglo–Russian culture club invites to join the two-day translation seminar which is led by Alexandra Borisenko and Victor Sonkin . The main goal is to translate and edit Russian short stories. The group consists of ten people, most of whom took part in previous sessions. However this time there are some free places.  All participants should be able to translate into English (i. e. to be native or very near-native English speakers). Project benefits from a bilingual environment since the translations are supposed to be thoroughly reviewed and checked by participants with native or near-native Russian skills.

Victor Sonkin is a scholar, translator, and writer. For several years, he worked as a Serbian-English translator at the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Most of his translations into Russian are done together with his wife and long-time colleague Alexandra Borisenko; they also teach literary translation at Moscow State University and the new ‘outside the classroom’ organization Creative Writing School.

Alexandra Borisenko, associate Professor at the Department of Discourse and Communication Studies, Faculty of Philology, Moscow State University, graduated from Moscow State University in 1992.

The workshop has published several books translated by her students, including two major anthologies of British and American crime fiction (2009, 2011). She teaches courses on translation studies, children’s literature, crime fiction, cultural studies. Borisenko has published numerous critical and theoretical works on literary history and literary translation. Apart from her educational work, she is a literary translator, technical translator and conference interpreter, member of The Literary Translators’ Guild.

Date: 19, 20 October.

The workshop will be in English.