Lilianna Lungina
Lilianna Zinovyevna Lungina was a Russian translator from French, German, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish languages. She translated into Russian:
- tales by Astrid Lindgren,
- plays by August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen,
- stories by Heinrich Böll,
- novels by Boris Vian and Romain Gary,
- works of Friedrich Schiller, Knut Hamsun, Herman Bang, Gerhart Hauptmann, Colette and many others
She was the wife of the screenwriter Semen Lungin 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. London: Overlook Duckworth, 2014.
- Les saisons de Moscou : 1933-1990 : racontées à Claude Kiejman par Lila Lounguina. Paris: Plon, 1990.