Olga Andreyeva Carlisle (born 22 January 1930) is a French-born American novelist, translator, and painter. Carlisle, with her husband Henry Carlisle, is notable for translating Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work into English. Although Solzhenitsyn criticized the translations, Carlisle felt they helped bring his work to a wider audience and contributed to Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Prize.[1]
Olga Andreyeva Carlisle | |
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| Born | January 22, 1930 Paris, France |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Bard College |
| Spouse | Henry Carlisle |
| Parents | Vadim Andreyev Olga Chernova-Andreyeva |
| Relatives | Leonid Andreyev (grandfather) |
Biography
editCarlisle was born in Paris to a Russian literary family. Her father, Vadim Andreyev, was the son of Russian writer Leonid Andreyev. Her mother, Olga Chernova-Andreyeva, was the stepdaughter of Viktor Chernov, a Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party.[2]
Carlisle attended Bard College in New York from 1949 to 1953.[2] She met her husband Henry Carlisle during this time and they moved to New York City in 1953.[2] She now lives in San Francisco.[3]
As an artist, Carlisle's paintings have been shown in Paris and across the United States.[4] She was mentored by Louis Schanker in the 1940s; then Earl Loran and Robert Motherwell in the 1950s.[4]
Works
edit- Voices in the Snow (1962)
- Poets on Street Corners (1968)
- Solzhenitsyn and the Secret Circle (1978)
- Island of Time (1980)
- Under a New Sky (1993)
- The Idealists (1999) (with Henry Carlisle)
- Far from Russia (2000)
Translations
edit- The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (with Henry Carlisle)
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (with Henry Carlisle)
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1978, with Henry Carlisle)
References
edit- ^ Martin, Douglas (15 July 2011). "Henry Carlisle, a Supporter of Oppressed Writers, Dies at 84". New York Times. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ a b c Gates, Ethan; Rabinowitz, Stanley. "The Olga Carlisle Collection" (PDF). Amherst Center for Russian Culture. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ Boudreau, John (22 August 1993). "A Soviet Reunion : Literature: Olga Andreyev Carlisle's memoirs track the history of her literary family in a nation of change". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ a b "Olga Andreyeva Carlisle". Bonhams. Retrieved 24 June 2019.