# Robert Chandler (translator)

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British poet and literary translator

**Robert Chandler** (born 1953) is a British poet and [literary translator](/source/Literary_translator). He is the editor of *Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida* (Penguin) and the author of the short biography of *[Alexander Pushkin](/source/Alexander_Pushkin)* (Hesperus).[1] He is also the editor of the literary magazine *[Cardinal Points](/source/Cardinal_Points)*.

His translations include numerous works by [Andrei Platonov](/source/Andrei_Platonov), [Vasily Grossman's](/source/Vasily_Grossman) *[Stalingrad](/source/Stalingrad_(Grossman_novel))* (*For a Just Cause*), *[Life and Fate](/source/Life_and_Fate)* and *The People Immortal* (as well as the novel *Everything Flows*, short stories, essays and war journalism), and [Pushkin's](/source/Alexander_Pushkin) *[The Captain's Daughter](/source/The_Captain's_Daughter)*. Chandler's co-translation of Platonov's *Soul* was chosen in 2004 as “best translation of the year from a Slavonic language” by the [American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages](/source/AATSEEL) (AATSEEL). His translation of [Hamid Ismailov](/source/Hamid_Ismailov)’s *[The Railway](/source/The_Railway_(novel))* won the AATSEEL prize for Best Translation into English in 2007,[2] and received a special commendation from the judges of the 2007 [Rossica Translation Prize](/source/Rossica_Translation_Prize). In 2016 he published a translation of Teffi's memoir of the first days after the Russian Revolution, *Memories: from Moscow to the Black Sea* (NYRB). Chandler’s translations of *[Sappho](/source/Sappho)* and *[Guillaume Apollinaire](/source/Guillaume_Apollinaire)* are published in the [Everyman’s Poetry](/source/Everyman%E2%80%99s_Poetry) series.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Tonkin, Boyd (20 November 2009). ["Alexander Pushkin, By Robert Chandler"](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/alexander-pushkin-by-robert-chandler-1823835.html). *The Independent*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-AATSEEL2007_2-0)** "Best Translation into English", [*Book Prize Winners for 2007*](http://www.aatseel.org/about/prizes/recent-recipients/book-prize-winners-for-2007.htm), AATSEEL, retrieved 30 June 2012

## External links

- [Q&A with Chandler about his translation of Teffi’s stories, A Time Was No More, published in April 2024.](https://shop.pushkinhouse.org/blogs/bookshop-newsletter-interviews/interview-with-robert-chandler)

- [Interview with Chandler on Platonov](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/18/andrei-platonov-robert-chandler)

- [Article by Chandler on translating Pushkin's *The Captain's Daughter*](http://www.stosvet.net/12/chandler/)

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