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Anne O. Fisher

Anne O. Fisher first tried reading Ilf and Petrov’s Ostap Bender novels in 1995 as an undergraduate exchange student at Petrozavodsk State Pedagogical University, where patient friends spent many hours explaining the books to her. Ten years later, she defended her Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Michigan, on the novels’ reading and publishing history from 1928 to the present. Her translation of Ilf & Petrov’s The Little Golden Calf (Russian Life Books) won the 2010 prize for Best Translation into English from AAASS. Her translation of The Twelve Chairs was published by Northwestern Books in the fall of 2011. She also translated the coauthors’ account of their 1935-36 road trip through the U.S. (Ilf & Petrov’s American Road Trip, Cabinet Books), and is working with Ilf’s daughter on a biography of Ilf and a translation of his diaries.

A Second Reading of Borges
Chtenia: Spring 2012

Author: Margarita Meklina
Translator: Anne O. Fisher
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Other Worlds
Chtenia: Spring 2012

Author: Anne O. Fisher
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There's No Peace on Earth or in Heaven
Chtenia: Spring 2012

Author: Maxim Amelin
Translator: Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher
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The Interplanetary Chess Congress
Chtenia: Winter 2012

Authors: Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov
Translator: Anne O. Fisher
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Dersu Uzala
Chtenia: Winter 2010

Author: Vladimir Arsenyev
Translator: Anne O. Fisher
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The Golden Calf
Chtenia: Spring 2009

Authors: Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov
Translator: Anne O. Fisher
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