Culture Connection: Translating Contemporary Russian Writers

Speaker: Carol Apollonio Carol Apollonio is a specialist in Russian literature, Russian and Japanese translation, and language pedagogy. Her most recent books are Simply Chekhov (2020), a translation of Alisa Ganieva’s Russian-Dagestani novel Bride and Groom (2018), and Chekhov’s Letters (2018), co-edited with Radislav Lapushin. In the fall of 2019, she traveled across Siberia and wrote about the experience on her blog “Chekhov’s Footprints“ ( ). She is currently the President of the International Dostoevsky Society.