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Find-a-Linguist - Mr Richard COOMBES
Statement: I am a UK-based literary translator (Russian to English literary prose and verse).
I have a Classics MA (Cambridge University) and the CIOL’s DipTrans.
I started in literary translation in 2018.
Recently-published translations:
Akim Tarazi's novella ‘Retribution’ (in ‘Contemporary Kazakh Literature’, CUP, Sept 2019);
Elena Dolgopyat’s short stories ‘Science’ (B O D Y magazine, Apr 2020) and ‘The Quality of Time’ (to appear in InTranslation, summer 2020).
Current projects:
WWII poems for a forthcoming anthology;
‘Look At Me’, Pavel Basinski’s book on Liza Dyakonova, a young, free-spirited Russian woman who disappeared and died in mysterious circumstances in 1902;
Stories by Elena Dolgopyat, Anna Ignatova, and Andrei Filimonov.
Name: Mr Richard COOMBES MA DipTrans MCIL
City: Glossop
Country / Territory: United Kingdom
Native language(s): ENGLISH
Language(s) of qualification: RUSSIAN
CIOL number: 49732
Membership grade: Member
Membership status: Current
Email address: richardcoombeslanguageservices@outlook.com
Find-a-Linguist directory listing(s): Translation: RUSSIAN to ENGLISH