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Рита Райт-Ковалёва

  • Рита Яковлевна Райт-Ковалёва
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Райт-Ковалёва, Рита
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Female
Date of birth
1898-04-19
Place of birth
Khersons'ka Oblast'
Date of death
1988-12-29
Place of death
Moscow

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Rita Yakovlevna Rait-Kovaleva, born Chernomordik (19 April 1898 – 29 December 1988) was a Soviet literary translator and writer, particularly known for her translations of J. D. Salinger and Kurt Vonnegut into Russian. Rait-Kovaleva's translation of The Catcher in the Rye (as Over the Abyss in Rye) achieved initial popularity amid novel's success among Soviet readers during Khrushchev Thaw.

Rait-Kovaleva received the Order of Friendship of Peoples and the Thornton Wilder Prize from the Columbia University's Translation Center.

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