GINSBURG, Mirra

(1919-)

   Russian-born US editor, writer and translator. She began her translating career with a version of Mikhail BULGAKOV's "The Fatal Eggs" for FSF in 1964, and later translated an abridged version of his Master i Margarita as The Master and Margarita (1967). Other translations include acollection of stories by Yevgeny ZAMIATIN, The Dragon: Fifteen Stories by Yevgeny Zamyatin (coll trans from various sources 1967), a new version ofhis We (1920; 1972), and a juvenile sf novel by Lydia OBUKHOVA, Lilit (trans as Daughter of Night 1974). She has edited and translated thestories for 3 collections of Soviet sf (RUSSIA; SOVIET UNION): Last Door to Aiya (anth 1968), The Ultimate Threshold (anth 1970) and The Air of Mars and Other Stories of Time and Space (juvenile anth 1976). MG alsoedited The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire (anth 1965), which contains several fantasies. She has written books for very young children.

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