Arch Tait

Arch Tait has a PhD in Russian literature from Cambridge University. He began translating for Soviet Literature magazine in 1992 and for some years was U.K. editor of the Glas New Russian Writing translation series, whose editor-in-chief is Natasha Perova. He has translated twenty-nine books, including Anna Politkovskaya’s Putin’s Russia, Mikhail Gorbachev’s The New Russia, and Ludmila Ulitskaya’s Daniel Stein, Interpreter. He promotes present-day Russian writers on his website: www.russianwriting.com.