Andrew Bromfield

Andrew Bromfield is a British editor and translator of Russian literature into English. He was a founding editor of the Russian literature journal Glas in 1991, and has translated into English works by Boris Akunin, Vladimir Voinovich, Irina Denezhkina, Victor Pelevin, and Sergei Lukyanenko, among other writers.

Life and career

Bromfield was born in Hull, Yorkshire. He began his career as a literary translator in Moscow during perestroika.

At Glas, he worked with Natalia Perova as the journal's first co-editor. His translations of Pelevin for the journal led to commissions from larger publishers to translate Pelevin's novels.

His 2007 translation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace was based on a reconstructed early draft of the novel, which has a different ending from the final text.

Selected translations

Victor Pelevin

Stories, novellas and collections
Novels

Dmitry Glukhovsky

Boris Akunin

Sergei Lukyanenko

Mikhail Bulgakov

Other works

Translation approach

In a 2007 interview, Bromfield described his approach to translation:

My job is to provide the readers of a translation with an experience which is as close as possible to the experience that the author provides to readers of the original — the author's authentic voice and relationship to his characters (and readers) should come across in the same way in a translation. Also, the translated text should, ideally, read just as naturally as the original (and conversely, if an author doesn't read comfortably in the original, that should be reflected in the translation).

References

  1. 1 2 "Andrew Bromfield". Peirene Press. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
  2. ↑ "Andrew Bromfield". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
  3. ↑ Perova, Natasha (18 August 2017). "The Story of Glas: Publishing New Russian Writing in English Translation". European Literature Network.
  4. 1 2 Glaister, Dan (22 October 2007). "Publishers weigh into War and Peace battle". The Guardian.
  5. ↑ "Metro 2033". Gollancz. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
  6. ↑ "The Law of Eternity". National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
  7. ↑ Auden, Sandy (2 September 2007). "Sergei Lukyanenko and Andrew Bromfield on the 'Watch' urban fantasies". UK SF Book News. Archived from the original on 1 February 2009.