Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕

Small, brightly coloured dinosaur. Stegosaurus/triceratops cross. Likes libraries & literature (especially Russian). Freelance translator and blogger.🦕🦕🦕

[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

For your #Halloween and even #Christmas shopping, try my collection of thirteen short stories #translated from Russian, by authors from Amphiteatrov to Zamyatin, all connected by MYSTERY. 🎃🎃🧛🇷🇺🪆
White Magic: Russian Emigre Tales of Mystery and Terror https://t.co/jBDMAVPeCS

[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

There really are radishes in this story. And lettuces too, as rhapsodized by Mary McCarthy @nyrbclassics @NYRB_Imprints 🥗🥗

[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

My latest blog post: a surprising lifelong friendship between crusty critic Edmund Wilson and Smith College Russianist Helen Muchnic, revealed through their letters: https://t.co/QGULcgKjiR

[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

@thejosevergara @YelenaFurman I think @snecarlyle is involved with editing one such journal at @UCLSSEES ...

[Marylebone Theatre @MaryleboneTHLDN]

Dmitry is ending in one week! Last chance to find out: "Can the truth destroy a nation?"

Tickets available on https://t.co/Tn6hhRDqch
Must end 5 November

📷: Ellie Kurttz

[Daniel York Loh @DanielYorkLoh]

‘You so called dead…

… I laugh at you…’

As Boris Godunov in the magnificent Dmitry which runs for FOUR MORE WEEKS UNTIL NOV 5th @MaryleboneTHLDN LINK IN BIO

Picture by @elliekurttz
#Dmitry #Schiller #PeterOswald #TimSupple #Russia #Poland #AlexanderGifford

[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

My thoughts on the play #Dmitry, at @MaryleboneTHLDN until Nov 5.

[Muireann @Muireann]

I went to see Peter Oswald's version of Schiller's play Dmitry in London last weekend. Here's what Russian Dinosaur thought about it:
https://t.co/Dv6E08nPnJ

[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

New post: visiting #Vilnius, encounters with #Pushkin, and a magic #mirror. https://t.co/XnSl2Hqggf

[Bliss @ Finborough Theatre @BlissThePlay1]

@RussianLitDino Please RT! A new play @BlissThePlay1 based on Andrey Platonov's short story "The River Potudan" plays at @finborough until June 11. Book tickets on the link on our profile.

[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

@RuthAhmedzai @PushkinPress @PushkinVertigo You're welcome @RuthAhmedzai ! I just wish this book "Punishment of the Hunter" was more widely stocked. Come on @Waterstones - you're normally strong on #translated #crime fiction!

[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

I was honoured to translate this moving statement against Putin's war on Ukraine, by #Russian author Anna Starobinets. Thank you @KEYoung_Poet and @PuncturedLines for your support.

[Muireann @Muireann]

@RussianLitDino shares a brave statement by #Russian writer Anna Starobinets: https://t.co/n2VxpZgMBS
@Pushkin_House @PushkinPress @PuncturedLines @KEYoung_Poet @ExeterModLangs

[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

My latest #book review, on @RuthAhmedzai's #translation of Yulia Yakovleva's Soviet-set crime thriller #PunishmentOfTheHunter. An excellent, gripping read. @PushkinPress @PushkinVertigo @PoppyBookPR
https://t.co/q3w7JWPNgu

[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

Great review of a new Chekhov biography by Bob Blaisdell...
https://t.co/V5NbucTpzt

[Muireann @Muireann]

What a lovely post about the latest @RusLibrary anthology with #Krzhizhanovsky's nonfiction. Thank you @kaggsy59 ! Glad you enjoyed it! I'm cross I gave my contributor's copy away...

[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

@RobMunb Who would fardels bear, anyway?

[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

You can read an early, short version of @Muireann 's contribution to the volume here! (I did all the work, as usual. She gets the royalties). https://t.co/87mEhJcs9j

[Muireann @Muireann]

Delighted this volume is out from @ColumbiaUP @RusLibrary - an important contribution to #Krzhizhanovsky studies! Poster shows the conference that inspired the book.

[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

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[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

@BorisDralyuk Can I be god-dinosaur? Will lay on free visits to island theme parks!

[Russian Dinosaur 🇷🇺 🦕 @RussianLitDino]

Interesting new #Dostoevsky study reviewed by @alex_christofi: https://t.co/DiXvEA13BR

[Институт перевода @Institut_transl]

Happy 200th birthday to the Russian master, Fyodor Dostoevsky!