Alexander Livergant

Alexander Livergant

Alexander Livergant

Literary researcher, translator and chief editor of the journal Inostrannaya Literatura. He graduated from Moscow State University, Department of Roman and German Philology, and defended his Ph.D. thesis on the work of Sean O’Casey and Irish literary Renaissance. He teaches literary translation and history of foreign literatures at Russian State University of Humanities. He has authored several literary research books and translated works by Jonathan Swift, Lawrence Stern, Evelyn Waugh, Raymond Chandler, among others.