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Donald Rayfield

British academic and translator · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1942 · age 84

Patrick Donald Rayfield OBE is an English academic and Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. He is an author of books about Russian and Georgian literature, history of Georgia, and about Joseph Stalin and his secret police.

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He is also a series editor for books about Russian writers and intelligentsia. He has translated Georgian, Russian and Uzbek poets and prose writers.

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United Kingdom
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Writers
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Born 1942 · age 84