Masha Karp
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| Native name | Мария Поэлевна Карп |
| Born | 3 September 1956 Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR |
| Occupation | Author, Translator, Journalist |
| Language | English, Russian |
| Alma mater | Herzen University |
Masha Karp is a Russian author, journalist, and translator. She translated English and German works into Russian, wrote a comprehensive biography of Orwell in Russian and also a historic research in English George Orwell and Russia, also an author of articles, broadcasts and podcasts.
Life
Masha Karp was born Maria Poelevna Karp . Her father Poel Karp is a ballet critic and translator. Masha graduated from Herzen University. She began to publish starting from 1983 her translations of prose and verse from English and German into Russian, the list includes: Virginia Woolf, Alice Munro, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Andreas Gryphius, Elizabeth Jennings and Nikolaus Lenau.[1]. She also translated George Orwell’s Animal Farm and its original preface «The Freedom of the Press»[2].
She is a member of the board of The Orwell Society and editor of Journal of Orwell Society[3][4]. In 2023 Karp published a historic research in English "George Orwell and Russia"[5] which was positively reviewed[6][7][8] and recommended by NYU library[9] and The Orwell Society[10].
Masha Karp is a chair of the Pushkin Club in Britain, member of the St. Petersburg Writers' Union, the Literary Translators Guild in Russia and the UK Chartered Institute of Linguists, also a trustee of "Rights in Russia"[11].
Masha Karp received prize of journal Innostrannaya literatura (1991) and also Popov' prize (2001) for radio broadcasting in the nomination of Info-analytical program for her program Defending freedom.[12][13]
Books
- Masha Karp (2023-06-15). George Orwell and Russia (1st ed.). United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 312. ISBN 9781788317139.
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- Masha Karp (2017). George Orwell, Biography (in русский) (1st ed.). Saint Petersburg: :ru:Вита Нова. p. 608. ISBN 978-5-93898-642-8.
Articles
- Masha Karp (2009-08-25). "Far away from Moscow". OpenDemocracy.
- Masha Karp. "BBC plays by the Kremlin's Rules". Standpoint magazine.
- Masha Karp (2010-12-12). "Doctor Zhivago, By Boris Pasternak, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Reviewed by Masha Karp". The Independent.
- Masha Karp (2010-03-16). "Arthur Koestler: 20th century man". OpenDemocracy.
- Masha Karp (2010-07-02). "Living Souls, By Dmitry Bykov, trans. Cathy Porter. Reviewed by Masha Karp". The Independent.
- Masha Karp (2011-10-22). "Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia by Luke Harding". The Spectator. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- Masha Karp (2011-10-22). "Siege mentality". The Spectator. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- Masha Karp (2013-02-19). "Marina Goldovskaya: documenting modern Russia". OpenDemocracy. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
- Masha Karp (2013-02-19). "Forbidden art: an oasis in the desert". OpenDemocracy.
- Masha Karp (2013-03-26). "Unilateral Disarmament: How the West Has Destroyed its Broadcasting to Russia". Rights in Russia.
- Masha Karp (2016). "A wit wooed by Rasputin. Masha Karp enjoys the writings of a satirist shaken by the Red terror". The World Today. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
- Masha Karp (2022-02-05). "Found and Lost". The Orwell Society. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
- Masha Karp (2022-03-15). "Masha Karp on the Ukrainian translation of Animal Farm". The Orwell Foundation. Retrieved 2023-04-16.
Videos
References
- ↑ "George Orwell and Russia with Masha Karp". Keats Community Library. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
- ↑ Мария Карп (Masha Karp) (1991). Skotskoe khozyaystvo. SPb: Azbuka-Klassika. Vsemirnoe slovo. p. 608. ISBN 978-5-93898-642-8.
- ↑ Masha Karp. "The Orwell Society Journal". The Orwell Society. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
- ↑ Karp, Masha. "Found and Lost". The Orwell Society. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
- ↑ "George Orwell and Russia". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
- ↑ Boynton, Owen (2023-05-12). "Between socialist promise and totalitarian threat Owen Boynton reviews Masha Karp's George Orwell and Russia". Meduza. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
- ↑ Butt, Usman (2023-07-11). "George Orwell and Russia". Middle East Moonitor. Europe & Russia, Review - Books, Reviews, Russia. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
George Orwell and Russia makes for fascinating reading. Karp's exploration of the past, with an eye on the present, enables her to uncover the roots of George Orwell's enduring relevance.
- ↑ Popoff, Alexandra (2023-06-23). "'George Orwell and Russia' Review: The Origin of 'War Is Peace'". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
Some books need no subtitle, and "George Orwell and Russia" is one of them
- ↑ McGlone, Peggy (2023-06-23). "Book Report: What NYU Librarians Are Reading This Summer". NY University. NYU. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
Alla Roylance, librarian for Slavic and Eastern European Studies; Linguistics, recommends George Orwell and Russia by Masha Karp (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023)
- ↑ Bateman, Ron (2023-07-15). "A Solzhenitsyn without a Gulag. George Orwell and Russia: 2+2=5 by Masha Karp". The Orwell Society. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ↑ "Masha Karp". Rights in Russia. Rights in Russia. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
- ↑ Мария Карп (Masha Karp) (2017). (George Orwell, Biography). SPb: :ru:Вита Нова. p. 608. ISBN 978-5-93898-642-8.
- ↑ "Masha Karp obtains Popov' prize". BBC. Archived from the original on 2018-05-25. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
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