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An illustrated talk by Masha Karp. This will be a fascinating illustrated talk on a little known aspect of Orwell?s life and work.

Masha Karp is a London-based freelance journalist with a special interest in relations between Russia and the West. She is a translator of ?Animal Farm ? into Russian (first published in 2001) and the author of the award winning first Russian biography of Orwell. Masha worked for the BBC World Service for 18 years, she was Russian Features editor from 1997 to 2009.
She is a trustee of ?Rights in Russia? NGO and writes on Russian politics and literature for the national press in the UK. Apart from Orwell she has published translations of many writers, including Virginia Woolf, Dylan Thomas, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Jennings, Alice Munro, Andreas Griffius and Nicolaus Lenau, as well as articles on translation. She is a member of the St Petersburg Writers? Union and the Literary Translators Guild in Russia and a chair of the Pushkin Club in Britain.
?You can?t understand contemporary politics without Orwell?.

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10 Keats Grove,

Hampstead,

Greater London,

England,

NW3 2RR.