Olga Andreyeva Carlisle
Olga Andreyeva Carlisle | |
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| Born | January 22, 1930 |
| Education | Bard College |
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| Spouse | Henry Carlisle |
| Parent(s) | Vadim Andreyev Olga Chernova-Andreyeva |
| Relatives | Leonid Andreyev (grandfather) |
Olga Andreyeva Carlisle (born 22 January 1930) is a French-born American novelist, translator, and painter. Carlisle, with her husband Henry Carlisle, is notable for translating Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work into English.
Biography
Carlisle was born in Paris to a Russian literary family. Her father, Vadim Andreyev, was the son of Russian writer Leonid Andreyev. Her mother, Olga Chernova-Andreyeva, was the stepdaughter of Viktor Chernov, a Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party.[1]
Carlisle attended Bard College in New York from 1949 to 1953.[1] She met her husband Henry Carlisle during this time and they moved to New York City in 1953.[1] She now lives in San Francisco.[2]
As an artist, Carlisle's paintings have been shown in Paris and across the United States.[3] She was mentored by Louis Schanker in the 1940s; then Earl Loran and Robert Motherwell in the 1950s.[3]
Works
- Voices in the Snow (1962)
- Poets on Street Corners (1968)
- Solzhenitsyn and the Secret Circle (1978)
- Island of Time (1980)
- Under a New Sky (1993)
- The Idealists (1999) (with Henry Carlisle)
- Far from Russia (2000)
Translations
- The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (with Henry Carlisle)
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (with Henry Carlisle)
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1978, with Henry Carlisle)
References
- 1 2 3 Gates, Ethan; Rabinowitz, Stanley. "The Olga Carlisle Collection" (PDF). Amherst Center for Russian Culture. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ↑ Boudreau, John (22 August 1993). "A Soviet Reunion : Literature: Olga Andreyev Carlisle's memoirs track the history of her literary family in a nation of change". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- 1 2 "Olga Andreyeva Carlisle". Bonhams. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- Bard College alumni
- 1930 births
- Russian–English translators
- 20th-century American novelists
- Living people
- Novelists from Paris
- French emigrants to the United States
- 20th-century American painters
- 21st-century American women painters
- 21st-century American painters
- 20th-century American women painters
- 21st-century American women novelists
- 20th-century American women novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- Novelists from San Francisco
- Novelists from New York City
- French people of Russian descent
- American translators