RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Brazil’s greatest promoter of Russian literature, Boris Schnaiderman, has died.
Schnaiderman died Thursday from pneumonia in Sao Paulo. He was 99. An Ukrainian-born Jew, he was the first person to translate classical Russian literature directly from the Russian language to Portuguese.
A translator, writer and essayist, Schnaiderman translated great Russian authors including Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gorky and Mayakovsky from their original Russian. In 1960, he created the first Russian language and literature university chair in Brazil at the University of Sao Paulo.
In 1943, he published the first direct translation of “The Brothers Karamazov” novel to Portuguese, putting …read more
Source: JTA
