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David Magarshack


Born
in Riga, Latvia
December 23, 1899

Genre
Biography, Translation


David Magarshack (1899 - 1977) was a Latvian translator and biographer of Russian authors, best known for his translations of Dostoevsky.

Magarshack was born in Riga, in present-day Latvia (Riga was then part of Russia), travelled to Britain in 1920 and became naturalised in 1931.

After graduating from University College London in English Language and Literature, he worked in Fleet Street and published a number of novels.

He was the biographer of Chekhov (1952, 1955 (US)), Gogol (1957), Dostoevsky (1962), Pushkin (1967), Stanislavsky (1951, 1976) and Turgenev (1954). Magarshack died in London in 1977.

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Big Ben Strikes Eleven
3.36 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 1934 — 7 editions
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Gogol, a Life.
3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1957 — 10 editions
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Chekhov the Dramatist
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Dostoevsky: A Life
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1962 — 3 editions
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Stanislavsky: A Life
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions
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Pushkin: A Biography
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Dostoevsky: First Love
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Nikolai Leskov: Selected Tales
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Chekhov in My Life: A Love ...
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions
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