Constance Garnett

Constance Garnett

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Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator of Dostoyevsky and Chekhov, and one of the first translators to render almost all works by Turgenev, Goncharov, Ostrovsky, Herzen, and Tolstoy into English. All together, she translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today.

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Constance Garnett was born on Thursday, 19 December 1861 in Brighton, England. She was best known as a writer. Garnett's country of citizenship (nationality) was British. She died on Tuesday, 17 December 1946 in The Cearne, Crockham Hill, Kent, England at the age of 84. Her zodiac star sign was Sagittarius.

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