Robert Chandler is an acclaimed translator of Russian literature. He has won the ASTSEEL prize for his translation of Hamid Ismailov's The Railway and has been shortlisted for a number of other awards including the Rossica Translation Prize and the PEN Translation award. For Pushkin Press, he has translated a number of works by Teffi, including her collection of short stories Subtly Worded and her memoir Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea. He also teaches part time at Queen Mary College and has published poems in the TLS and Poetry Review.
