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Biography
Introduction
Manya Harari (née Manya Benenson) (1905–1969) was a noted British translator of Russian literature and the co-founder of Harvill Press. Her best-known work is the translation of Boris Pasternak's epic novel Doctor Zhivago, which she co-translated with Max Hayward. She also translated works by Paustovsky, Sinyavsky, Ehrenburg and Ginzburg, among others.
Selected books
Translations
- Involuntary Journey to Siberia by Andrei Amalrik (co-translator: Max Hayward)
- The Thaw by Ilya Ehrenburg
- Into the Whirlwind by Evgenia Ginzburg (co-translator: Paul Stevenson)
- The Demonstration in Pushkin Square by Pavel Litvinov
- The Decline of Wisdom by Gabriel Marcel
- The Philosophy of Exisentialism by Gabriel Marcel
- An Essay in Autobiography by Boris Pasternak
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (co-translator: Max Hayward)
- The Blind Beauty: A Play by Boris Pasternak (co-translator: Max Hayward)
- Story of a Life (6 volumes) by Konstantin Paustovsky
- Unguarded Thoughts by Andrey Sinyavsky
- The Makepeace Experiment by Abram Tertz
Autobiography
- Memoirs 1906-1969