About Slava Yastremski
Lived 1952 – 2015 (aged 62–63). Slava Yastremski was a translator, slavist, university teacher, literary scholar and russian studies scholar.
Slava I. Yastremski (1952 Moscow - November 13, 2015 Lewisburg, Pennsylvania ) was a Russian-American literary scholar, Professor of Russian and Comparative Humanities at Bucknell University.
Yastremski has written on Russian literature and cinema, and helped to translate work by Vasily Aksyonov, Marina Tsvetaeva, Andrei Sinyavsky, Olga Sedakova and the Russian Ukrainian writer Igor Klekh.
Translations (tr. with Joel Wilkinson) Vassily Aksyonov, Surplussed Barrelware, 1985 (tr. with Michael M. Naydan) Marina Tsvetaeva, After Russia, 1992 (tr. with Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy) Andrei Sinyavsky, Strolls with Pushkin, 1993 (tr. with Catriona Kelly, Michael M. Naydan, and Andrew Wachtel) Olga Sedakova, Poems and elegies, 2003. (tr. with Michael M. Naydan) Igor Klekh, A Land The Size Of Binoculars, 2004
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Who was Slava Yastremski?
Russian-English translator
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Slava Yastremski was born in 1952 in Moscow.
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Slava Yastremski died on 13 November 2015 in Lewisburg.
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Slava Yastremski was a translator, slavist, university teacher, literary scholar and russian studies scholar.
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