Richard Coombes

Richard Coombes has been a classicist, a musician, an international tax specialist, and now translates Russian-language literature (verse, prose, and song lyrics) into English. Richard's recently published translations include Elena Dolgopyat's short story collection Someone Else's Life ('Chuzhaya zhizn'), published in 2023 by Glagoslav; other short stories by Elena Dolgopyat and poetry by Lyudmila Knyazeva, Dmitry Vodennikov and Tatyana Voltskaya in a variety of literary journals; poetry in...See more

Richard Coombes has been a classicist, a musician, an international tax specialist, and now translates Russian-language literature (verse, prose, and song lyrics) into English. Richard's recently published translations include Elena Dolgopyat's short story collection Someone Else's Life ('Chuzhaya zhizn'), published in 2023 by Glagoslav; other short stories by Elena Dolgopyat and poetry by Lyudmila Knyazeva, Dmitry Vodennikov and Tatyana Voltskaya in a variety of literary journals; poetry in the bilingual World War II poetry collection Poems from the Front ('Frontovaya lira'), published in Russia in 2021; and poetry in the bilingual anti-war anthology Disbelief, published in January 2023. A follow-up anthology by the 'Disbelief' team, called Dislocation, will be published in 2024. Richard's translation of Liza's Waterfall (Pavel Basinsky's documentary-thriller 'Posmotrite na menya') is complete and awaiting publication. See less