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Nina Berberova
AuthorBooks · Second hand1901-1993
Nina Nikolayevna Berberova was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of anti-communist Russian refugees in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia. Her 1965 revision of the Constance Garnett translation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina with Leonard J. Kent was considered by the academic Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit to be the best translation before 2000.
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About Nina Berberova
Birth
1901
Death
1993
Nina Nikolayevna Berberova was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of anti-communist Russian refugees in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia. Her 1965 revision of the Constance Garnett translation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina with Leonard J. Kent was considered by the academic Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit to be the best translation before 2000.
Nina Berberova was born in Saint Petersburg in 1901 and had a prolific career as a writer, poet, and journalist.
Her body of work includes 70 titles that explore fiction, biography, and essays.
She is well-known for her close intellectual relationship with the famous writer Vladimir Nabokov.
Throughout her life, she lived in Russia, France, and the United States, reflecting a cosmopolitan journey.
Her book First Encounter stands out as one of her most iconic works within her extensive bibliography.
