Jamey Gambrell

Jamey Gambrell was a writer on Russian art and culture, and a translator. She was perhaps best known for translating Vladimir Sorokin's Ice Trilogy (published by New York Review Books) , Day of the Oprichnik (FSG), and The Blizzard (FSG). Among her other translations are Tatyana Tolstaya's novel The Slynx and Letters: Summer 1926 , a collection of letters between Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke; both books were published by New York Review Books. She also translated...See more

Jamey Gambrell was a writer on Russian art and culture, and a translator. She was perhaps best known for translating Vladimir Sorokin's Ice Trilogy (published by New York Review Books) , Day of the Oprichnik (FSG), and The Blizzard (FSG). Among her other translations are Tatyana Tolstaya's novel The Slynx and Letters: Summer 1926 , a collection of letters between Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke; both books were published by New York Review Books. She also translated Earthly Signs , another New York Review Books edition, which collects essays based on diaries kept during 1917-1922. Jamey Gambrell passed away on February 15, 2020. See less