Lilianna Lungina

Lilianna Zinovyevna Lungina (Russian: Лилиа́нна Зино́вьевна Лунгина́; 16 June 1920 Smolensk, Russia – 13 January 1998 Moscow, Russia ) was a Russian translator from French, German, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish languages. She translated into Russian:

She is the subject of a 15-episode TV documentary "Podstrochnik" ("Translation") by director Oleg Dorman. The documentary was forbidden from showing for 11 years but after the release became a TV hit that won the TEFI prize in 2010.[1] Her monologue has been published as a book Word for Word: A Memoir, which also contains the text that had not been included in the documentary. The book was a bestseller in Russia.[2]

She was the wife of the screenwriter Semen Lungin (1920–96) and the mother of film director Pavel Lungin.

Books
  • Word for Word: A Translator's Memoir of Literature, Politics, and Survival in Soviet Russia. - Lilianna Lungina as told to Oleg Dorman. [Translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon and Ast. A. Moore.] London: Overlook Duckworth, 2014.[3]
  • Les saisons de Moscou : 1933-1990 : racontées à Claude Kiejman par Lila Lounguina. Paris: Plon, 1990.[4]

References
  1. "Награжданская позиция Режиссер "Подстрочника" отказался от премии "ТЭФИ"". Grani. 26 September 2010.
  2. Schoenhals, Michael and Karin Sarsenov, eds. (2013). "The Constitution of a Reliable Self: Word for Word" by Oleg Dorman and Lilianna". Imagining Mass Dictatorships. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 9. ISBN 9781137330697.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  3. "Books - Duckworth Overlook". ducknet.co.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  4. Lungina, Lila; Kiejman, Claude (10 April 1990). "Les saisons de Moscou 1933-1990". Plon. Retrieved 10 April 2018 – via Open WorldCat.
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