Michael PursgloveMichael Pursglove (born 22 September 1944) is a retired Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages at Exeter University. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School, King's College Cambridge and New College, Oxford. He also taught at the universities of Ulstr, Reading and Bath. He has published, as translator or co-translator, eleven book-length translations, including five novels and a volume of short stories by Turgenev and, most recently, the Ukrainian novels Children of Grad, O Venice, and Alexander Korotko's Moon Boy. He has also written widely on literature and translation issues, most recently in East-West Review. His published translations of poetry include works by Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev, Akhmatova and Mandelshtam. Read More Read Less