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Oliver Ready (born 1976) is a research fellow in Russian Society and culture at St Antony's College, Oxford. He had completed his Phd at Wolfson College, Oxford.

He has translated Crime and Punishment,[1][2] The Zero Train,[3] Before and During,[4] and The Prussian Bride.[5] of which the translation won the Rossica Translation Prize, in 2005.

He has co-translated The Maisky diaries.[6]

He is the author of Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963-2013 '(Peter Lang: Oxford, 2017)''''.[7]

He was director of the Russkiy Mir Programme at St. Antony's between 2011 and 2014, and he has also interest in writing about Russian culture and literature.[8][9][10]

An earlier writer with a similar name Oliver George Ready wrote Life and sport in China in 1904.[11]

Notes

  1. ^ Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; Ready, Oliver, 1976-, (translator.) (2014), Crime and punishment (New edition / translated by Oliver Ready ed.), London Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-14-119280-2 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ http://podularity.com/2014/04/07/conversations-with-translators-i-oliver-ready-on-crime-and-punishment/ Podularity conversations with translators
  3. ^ Buida, Yuri; Ready, Oliver G. (Oliver George) (2001), The zero train, Dedalus, ISBN 978-1-903517-01-7
  4. ^ Sharov, Vladimir; Ready, Oliver, (translator.) (2014), Before & during, Sawtry Dedalus Limited, ISBN 978-1-909232-99-0 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Buĭda, I︠U︡riĭ; Ready, Oliver (2002), The Prussian bride, Dedalus, ISBN 978-1-903517-06-2
  6. ^ Maĭskiĭ, I. M. (Ivan Mikhaĭlovich); Gorodetsky, Gabriel, 1945-, (editor.); Ready, Oliver, 1976-,, (translator.); Sorokina, Tatiana,, (translator.) (2016), The Maisky diaries : the wartime revelations of Stalin's ambassador in London, London Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-22170-1 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/11304
  8. ^ Ready, Oliver (2009-01-01), "Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture.(Book review)", The Modern Language Review, 104 (1), Modern Humanities Research Association: 306(2), ISSN 0026-7937
  9. ^ Ready, Oliver (2012-10-01), "Russian Postmodernist Metafiction.(Book review)", Slavonic and East European Review, 90 (4), Modern Humanities Research Association: 751–753, ISSN 0037-6795
  10. ^ Ready, Oliver (1998-10-29), "A time for dancing?(interview with Russian screenwriter Alexander Mindadze)(Interview)", Moscow News (41), Moscow News: 11(1), ISSN 0027-1306
  11. ^ Ready, Oliver G. (Oliver George) (1971), Life and sport in China (2nd ed.), Ch'eng Wen Publishing Co, retrieved 29 January 2017
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