Mary Hobson

M. Hobson's signature on a page of the book "Evgenii Onegin". After the presentation at Moscow State Pedagogical University. Mary Hobson (1926–2020) was a British writer, poet and translator. She wrote four novels and an autobiography. She translated Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit and his letters. Hobson also translated works by Alexander Pushkin. She won the Griboedov Prize and Pushkin Medal.

Personal life Hobson married a stage designer named Neil, and together they had four children. At 25 years of age he developed a cerebral abscess which left him debilitated on the right side of his body and speechless. Her husband became very difficult to live with and Mary Hobson left him in her 60s. Her son, Matthew, stayed with his father to prevent his mother from returning to him.

Hobson studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England.

Career While her husband underwent musical therapy, about the age of 40, Hobson wrote her first of four novels, the first three published by Heinemann Press.

At 62, she enrolled at London University in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She translated what was deemed a "mathematically impossible" poem to translate, including the declaration of Onegin, heir to his dying uncle's estate, when asked to visit him: She presented her translation of "Evgenii Onegin" 16 February 2012 at Moscow State Pedagogical University and has presented at educational conferences in Russia and Europe.

By 2003, she began to study ancient Greek.

Hobson won the bi-centenary Griboedov prize for the best translation of Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit in London in 1995, the Pushkin medal, awarded by the Association of Creative Unions in Moscow In 2011 she won the Podvizhnik Prize in Moscow.

In 2015, Hobson's fourth novel, completed in the 1980s, was published, together with an autobiography. This was followed in 2017 by a book on the last seven years of Pushkin's life told exclusively through Dr Hobson's translations of his poems and letters.

Hobson died in 2020.

Works Novels Mary Hobson. This Place Is a Madhouse. William Heinemann, 1980. Mary Hobson. Oh Lily. William Heinemann Ltd, 1981. Mary Hobson. Poor Tom. David & Charles Publishers, 1982. Mary Hobson. Promenade. Thorpewood Publishing, 2015.

Translations of Russian literature Mary Hobson; Aleksandr Sergeyevich Griboyedov. Aleksandr Griboedov's Woe from wit: a commentary and translation. Edwin Mellen Press; 2005. . Mary Hobson; Alexander Pushkin. Evgenii Onegin: A New Translation by Mary Hobson. Mary Hobson; Alexander Pushkin. "Friendship of Love." In Love Poems. Alma Classics Ltd, 2013. Mary Hobson; Alexander Pushkin. Eugene Onegin.Anthem Press, 2016

Non-Fiction Mary Hobson. The Feast. An autobiography Thorpewood Publishing, 2015 Mary Hobson. After Onegin. The last seven years in the poems and letters of Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin. Thorpewood Publishing, 2017