Ellendea Proffer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ellendea Proffer

American translator, author and publisher

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1944

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: translator, publisher, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Ellendea Proffer

  • Ellendea Proffer Teasley (born 1944) is an American author, publisher, and translator of Russian literature into English. She received her Ph.D.
  • from Indiana University, taught at Wayne State University and University of Michigan, Dearborn.
  • She is a well-known Bulgakov expert, translator and publisher.
  • She is known for Mikhail Bulgakov: Life & Work (1984); translations of Bulgakov's plays and prose; numerous articles and introductions, most prominently the Notes and Afterword to the Burgin-O'Connor translation of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. She married Carl R.
  • Proffer (1938–1984), and co-founded Ardis Publishers in 1971, a publishing house specializing in Russian literature, both in English and Russian.
  • As a publisher, she was responsible for the collected works of Bulgakov in Russian, which then triggered a Soviet edition.
  • Proffer Teasley edited a series of well-received photo-biographies, including those devoted to Nabokov, Tsvetaeva and Bulgakov.
  • Her memoir of Joseph Brodsky, Brodsky Among Us, was published in English in 2017, after the Russian translation was published in Moscow in 2015, where it became a bestseller. Ellendea Proffer was on the first judges' panel for the Booker Russian Novel Prize, and in 1989 received a Macarthur Fellowship for her work with Ardis.The Ardis archives, including Carl and Ellendea Proffer's papers, are held at University of Michigan. The archive consists of a collection of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondences, books, photographs, and proofs of selected titles.Lectures in English: “One Book, Two Cultures: Brodsky Among Us” (Harvard Davis Center, 2017).
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FuBDigwrQw “How Censorship Leads to Tamizdat [publishing abroad]” (Tamizdat Conference, Hunter College, NYC, 2018).
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOPmbJaKCGg “Writing in a Time of Terror: Mikhail Bulgakov” (Dillard University, New Orleans, 2019).
  • https://vimeo.com/326628255 Talks in Russian: “Brodskii sredi nas” (Dostoevsky Library, Moscow, 2015) with Anton Dolin.
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijYImQyhi5U “O knige Karla Proffera «Bez kupior»” (MMOMA, Moscow, 2017) with Anton Dolin).
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn2XBbQ9Iss

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