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David Magarshack
British translator (1899–1977)
David Magarshack (23 December 1899 – 26 October 1977) was a British translator and biographer of Russian authors, best remembered for his translations of Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol.
Biography
Magarshack was born in Riga, in present-day Latvia, at the time part of the Russian Empire. In 1920, he moved to the United Kingdom in order to study.
After graduating from University College London with a degree in English Language and Literature in 1924, Magarshack attempted to make a career out of journalism, and then out of writing crime fiction, neither of which were successful.
He gained British citizenship by naturalisation in 1931.
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He married Elsie Pedley and they had two daughters and two sons.
Translations and other writings
In early 1949, Magarshack was approached by E. V. Rieu, the editor of the Penguin Classics series, in order to translate Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
Magarshack accepted the job fo