Robert Chandler

Robert Chandler is a poet and translator. His recent books include a translation of Nikolai Leskov's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Andrey Platonov's masterpiece The Foundation Pit.

After Life and Fate: Vasily Grossman’s last stories

Yesterday we published one of Robert & Elizabeth Chandler’s new translations of Grossman’s stories, The Road. Today, Robert Chandler writes about these stories and about Grossman’s friendship with Andrey Platonov

By Robert Chandler

/ 13 Oct 2010

Vasily Grossman's The Road

Robert Chandler, distinguished translator of Vasily Grossman’s novels Life and Fate and Everything Flows, has now tackled Grossman’s last stories. We bring you his and his wife’s translation of The Road, the tale of a mule wrestling with Hamlet’s dilemma on the long road to Stalingrad

By Robert Chandler

/ 13 Oct 2010

Coats and turncoats: translating Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter

Translating Alexander Pushkin’s novel The Captain’s Daughter launched Robert Chandler on a journey of revelations into this ‘most subtly constructed of all nineteenth-century Russian novels’. The story leads Chandler to reflect on the fate of translators: as mediators between two cultures, maybe t

By Robert Chandler

/ 19 Jul 2010

BBC: ridding itself of a troublesome Russian Service?

The first stages of our ‘campaign' - which at the beginning we did not even think of as a campaign - were astonishingly easy. Most British academics, journalists, diplomats

By Robert Chandler

/ 10 Feb 2009