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Svetlana Payne  was born in Ternopil on the western rim of the Soviet Union, in 1961 and graduated with honours in philology, teaching of foreign languages and translation from the University of Lviv.

The illustrated compilation of the poetry by Daniel Kharms in Sveta’s translation, The Charms of Harms, appeared in 2011 and is still selling today. As a reverse in the cultural tide, in 1997 Sveta produced a Russian translation of T. S. Eliot’s The Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats which has now achieved a ‘Gold’ version for numerous reprints. In 2012 appeared her translation of The World’s Wife, by Carol Ann Duffy, and the libretto of Jesus Christ Superstar to enable a performance of this very popular musical in Russian.

Sveta has translated a biography of Boris Yeltsin (Boris Yeltsin: The Decade that Shook the World, (Glagoslav), a novel by Arseny Revazov (Loneliness-12, A&NN) and co-worked on two novels by the prize-winning Russian author Victor Pelevin (S.N.U.F.F. and Empire V, Gollancz).

Her most recent work is a translation of Sivtsev Vrazhek by Mikhail Osorgin (The Riven Heart of Moscow in translation), a book written in the aftermath of the Revolution and the First World War, which has now been published by Glagoslav.

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Svetlana Payne

Svetlana Payne  was born in Ternopil on the western rim of the Soviet Union, in 1961 and graduated with honours in philology, teaching of foreign languages and translation from the University of Lviv.

The illustrated compilation of the poetry by Daniel Kharms in Sveta’s translation, The Charms of Harms, appeared in 2011 and is still selling today. As a reverse in the cultural tide, in 1997 Sveta produced a Russian translation of T. S. Eliot’s The Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats which has now achieved a ‘Gold’ version for numerous reprints. In 2012 appeared her translation of The World’s Wife, by Carol Ann Duffy, and the libretto of Jesus Christ Superstar to enable a performance of this very popular musical in Russian.

Sveta has translated a biography of Boris Yeltsin (Boris Yeltsin: The Decade that Shook the World, (Glagoslav), a novel by Arseny Revazov (Loneliness-12, A&NN) and co-worked on two novels by the prize-winning Russian author Victor Pelevin (S.N.U.F.F. and Empire V, Gollancz).

Her most recent work is a translation of Sivtsev Vrazhek by Mikhail Osorgin (The Riven Heart of Moscow in translation), a book written in the aftermath of the Revolution and the First World War, which has now been published by Glagoslav.

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