Manya Harari

Manya Harari (née Manya Benenson) (1905–1969)^[1] 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

References