Richard Coombes

Richard Coombes has written music, songs and stories of his own, and translates Russian literature (verse, prose, and song lyrics) into English.Richard's recently published translations include short stories by Elena Dolgopyat and poetry by Lyudmila Knyazeva, Dmitry Vodennikov and Tatiana Voltskaya in a variety of literary journals; poetry for the Second World War in a poetry collection "Frontovaya Lira" (Poems from the Front), nominated for "Book of the Year 2021" in a category specifically...See more

Richard Coombes has written music, songs and stories of his own, and translates Russian literature (verse, prose, and song lyrics) into English.Richard's recently published translations include short stories by Elena Dolgopyat and poetry by Lyudmila Knyazeva, Dmitry Vodennikov and Tatiana Voltskaya in a variety of literary journals; poetry for the Second World War in a poetry collection "Frontovaya Lira" (Poems from the Front), nominated for "Book of the Year 2021" in a category specifically relating to the Second World War; and a variety of poems for the bilingual anthology Disbelief, published by Smokestack Books in January 2023. Richard and his colleagues are already working on a follow-up to Disbelief. Richard's translations of Pavel Basinsky's documentary-thriller-biography "Posmotrite na menya" (English title Liza's Waterfall) is scheduled to be published in 2023. Richard is currently preparing a translation of Alexey Ivanov's novel "Pishcheblok" (The Food Block). See less