Richard Pevear
- Born
- 1943
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- translator · poet
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- English · Ancient Greek
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- 1.Trachtenberg, Jeffrey A. "Translating Tolstoy", Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2009. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
- 2.Abramovich, Alex. "Russian-to-English translators turned Oprah stars", July 31, 2004, reproduced in EIZIE. Retrieved 2011-02-27.
- 3.Remnick, David. The Translation Wars. The New Yorker. 7 November 2005.
- 4.Wagner, Vit. A mention on Oprah translates into success. The Star. 15 December 2007.
- 5.Wyatt, Edward. Tolstoy's Translators Experience Oprah's Effect. New York Times. 7 June 2004.
- 6.Remnick, David. The Translation Wars. The New Yorker. 7 November 2005.
- 7.Eizie - Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
- 8.Pevear, Richard. Tolstoy's Transparent Sounds. New York Times. 14 October 2007.
- 9.Wood, James. How War and Peace Works. The New Yorker. 26 November 2007.
- 10.Random House Academic Resources.
- 11.Tanenhaus, Sam. Welcome - Reading Room - Sunday Book Review - New York Times Blog. The New York Times. 2007-10-11.
- 12.The New York Public Library. Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky in conversation with Keith Gessen Celebrating a New Translation of War and Peace.
- 13.Heim, Michael Henry. Approaching the Real Russian Thing: DEMONS, By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated and annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Alfred A. Knopf: $27.50; 714 pp.). Los Angeles Times. 1994-10-16.
- 14.Woodcock, George. Dostoevsky in Our Time. The Sewanee Review. 103. 3. 463–470. Summer 1995. 27547065.
- 15.Wood, James. Movable Types. The New Yorker. 2007-11-19.
- 16.Malcolm, Janet. Socks. The New York Review of Books. 2016-06-23. 0028-7504.
- 17.Morson, Gary Saul. "The Pevearsion of Russian Literature" (Archive). Commentary. July 1, 2010. Retrieved on July 19, 2015.
- 18.Morson, Gary Saul. "A Question of Purpose: On Translating Russian Literature" The Hedgehog Review. Summer 2025, p. 53.
- 19.McWhorter, John. Pevear and Volokhonsky are Indeed Overrated - My Two Roubles. It Bears Mentioning. 2021-04-08.
- 20.Slater, Ann Pasternak. Rereading: Doctor Zhivago - The Guardian. The Guardian. 2010-11-06.
- 21.Livingstone, Angela, (24/06/2011) Meaning Every Word of It. TLS.
- 22.Hebert, James. With fresh look at 'Uncle Vanya,' Old Globe bringing something new to the conversation. San Diego Union Tribune. 7 February 2018.
- 23.Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers, Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, "A Note on the Translation", page xxi
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