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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Date of birth | 19 December 1861
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Place of birth | Brighton, England
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Date of death | 17 December 1946
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Age | 84 (age at death)
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Place of death | The Cearne, Crockham Hill, Kent, England
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