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Nina Berberova
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Russian novelist and short story writer (1901–1993)
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St. Petersburg , Russia
Nina Nikolayevna Berberova (Russian: Ни́на Никола́евна Бербе́рова) (St Petersburg, 26 July 1901 – Philadelphia, 26 September 1993) was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of anti-communist Russian refugees in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia. Her 1965-revision of the Constance Garnett translation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina with Leonard J. Kent is…
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- Apostrophes — Self1975
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1901-07-26 ) July 26, 1901, St. Petersburg , Russian Empire
- Died
- September 26, 1993 (1993-09-26) (aged 92), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , United States
- Occupation
- writer
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nina
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Saint Petersburg
- Place of death
- Philadelphia
- Occupation
- novelist
- Employer
- Yale University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Field of work
- poetry
- Image
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- name in native language
- Нина Берберова
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- Nina Berberova
- date of birth
- 1901-08-08
- date of death
- 1993-09-26
- archives at
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- writing language
- Russian
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Encyclopedic overview
Nina Nikolayevna Berberova (Russian: Ни́на Никола́евна Бербе́рова; 26 July 1901 – 26 September 1993) was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of anti-communist Russian refugees in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia. Her 1965 revision of the Constance Garnett translation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina with Leonard J. Kent was considered by the academic Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit to be the best translation before 2000.
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