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Bela Shayevich

Bela Shayevich is a Soviet American writer and translator. She is best known for her translation of 2015 Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich's Secondhand Time , for which she was awarded the TA First Translation Prize. Her other translations include Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and Vsevolod Nekrasov's I Live I See , which she cotranslated with Ainsley Morse. Her writing has appeared in n+1 , Jew ish Currents , and Harper's Magazine.