Constance Garnett

English writer and translator (1861–1946)

Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English writer and translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English.

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Constance Garnett

English writer and translator (1861–1946)

Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English writer and translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English.

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Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English writer and translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English. She also rendered works by Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Alexander Herzen into English. Altogether, Garnett translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today.

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