About Viktor Golyshev
Born 1937. Viktor Golyshev is a Russian linguist and translator.
Viktor Petrovich Golyshev (; born April 26, 1937) is a well-known English-to-Russian translator. His translations include Light in August, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, All the King's Men, Theophilus North, 1984, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Set This House on Fire, Pulp, and others. He has won the Foreign Literature and Illuminator awards. He has said about modern American literature, "It isn't quite worthy of consideration. It has almost nothing to say about life." However, he subsequently joined a team of translators employed by the Russian publisher of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix after complaints of poor translation.
He has not been part of the translating team for any of the other Harry Potter books.
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Russian translator
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Viktor Golyshev was born on 26 April 1937 in Moscow.
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Viktor Golyshev is Russian.
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