Donald Rayfield
Patrick Donald Rayfield OBE is an English academic and Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. He is an author of books about Russian and Georgian literature, and about Joseph Stalin and his secret police. He is also a series editor for books about Russian writers and intelligentsia. He has translated Georgian, Russian and Uzbek poets and prose writers.
In March 2025, Donald Rayfield declined an award from the Writers' House of Georgia. Speaking at an event in London, he stated that he could not accept any gift associated with the Georgian Dream party.
Translations from Russian
Dead Souls, translation of Gogol's 1842 novel Kolyma Stories, translation of Varlam Shalamov's stories Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories, translation of Varlam Shalamov's stories- ''Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov''
Translations from Georgian
- A Man Was Going Down the Road - Otar Chiladze
- Avelum - Otar Chiladze ASIN B00DG9QLZ0
- The Story of My Life - Akaki Tsereteli ASIN B00COQSC7Q
- Kvachi Kvachantiradze - Mikheil Javakhishvili
- Unveiling Vazha Pshavela - Vazha Pshavela, Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili, edited by Andro Semeiko