Home|About us|PEN members|Marynycheva Olena
Marynycheva Olena

Marynycheva Olena

Russian translator, journalist, critic

Born in the village of Bilenke, Zaporizhzhia region, in 1954, Elena is a Russian translator, journalist, and critic.

In 1958 her family moved to the city of Zaporizhzhia, and in 1962 Elena started at high school #31 with Ukrainian as the primary language of instruction and advanced English. In 1972 she finished school with a gold medal. The same year she joined the Department of Journalism at the Lomonosov Moscow State University with a major in literary critics. She was studying under supervision of Professor Anatoly Bocharov, the founder of Faculty of Literary Critics at MSU.

Elena worked as a journalist for Moscow publications: Club, Kultura i Zhyzn. She also published translations and critical reviews for Izvestiya, Literaturnoye Obozreniye, The New Times, Novaya Gazeta, Obshchaya Gazeta, Computerra, Noviy Mir, Novaya Yunost, Druzhba Narodov, Colta.ru, textonly and others. She’s a member of the International Federation of Translators (since 2007) and the Masters of Literary Translation Guild (since 2015).

 

Bibliography

Since the mid-1990s she has been translating works from English and Ukrainian. Elena currently lives in Moscow.

From Ukrainian into Russian:

Oksana Zabuzhko. Polevye isledovaniya ukrainskogo seksa / Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex — Moscow: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 2001. The book contains: novel Fieldwork…, a story Devochki / Girls, and Perepiska avtora s perevodchikom / Correspondence between the author and the translator.

Maria Matios. Natsiya / The Nation — Moscow: Branotezh, 2007. Novel Darusya sladkaya / Sweet Darusia in translation by E. Marinicheva and S. Solozhenkina, edited by E. Marinicheva; the cycle of novels The Nation translated by E. Marinicheva.

Oksana Zabuzhko. Polevye isledovaniya ukrainskogo seksa / Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex. — Moscow: AST, 2007. Novel Fieldwork…, stories Girls and Albom dla Gustava / Album for Gustave, story Inoplanetyanka / Alien.

Oksana Zabuzhko. Polevye isledovaniya ukrainskogo seksa / Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex. Yuri Andrukhovych, Rekreatsyi / Recreations — Moscow: Druzhba Narodov, Best Contemporary Prose Series, 2008. Oksana Zabuzhko’s novel translated by E. Marinicheva; poems from the novel translated by Dmytri Kuzmin. Andrukhovych’s novel translated by Yulia Ilina-Korol.

Yevhenia Kononenko. Bez muzhyka / Without a Man — Moscow: Fluid, 2009. Collection of stories and essays.

Maria Matios. Darusya sladkaya / Sweet Darusia — Lviv: Piramida, 2010. Bilingual edition Darusya sladkaya / Solodka Darusya, translated by E. Marinicheva, S. Solozhenkina.

Oksana Zabuzhko. Muzei zabroshennykh sekretov / The Museum of Abandoned Secrets — Moscow: АST, 2013.

Maria Matios. Cherevichki Bozhyey Materi / St Maria’s Boots — Kharkiv, Folio, 2015.

Larysa Denysenko, Yuri Izdryk, Tanja Maljartschuk, Yevhenia Kononenko. Nebo etogo leta / This Summer’s Sky. Stories by Ukrainian writers.. — Moscow: Tri Kvadrata, 2015.

Tanja Maljartschuk. Lav-iz / Love is. — Moscow: AST, 2016.

Sergey Zhadan. Internat / The Orphanage — Meridian Czernowitz, 2017.

From English:

Greg Egan. Karantin / Quarantine —Moscow: AST-Press, 1997 (co-translated with L. Levkovich-Maslyuk)

John Stith. Vstrechi na "Krasnom smeshchenii" / Redshift Rendezvous — Moscow: AST-Press, 1997 (co-translated with L. Levkovich-Maslyuk).

Richard Barbrook. Internet-Revolutsya / The Internet Revolution — Ad Marginem Press, 2015 (co-translated with L. Levkovich-Maslyuk).