Translations

Translated from Kazakh to Russian. Completed in 2025.

"Jamal the Unfortunate" is the only major prose work by the classic of Kazakh literature, poet, journalist, and one of the leaders of the Kazakh national liberation movement, Mirjaqyp Dulatuly. Despite its relatively modest length, scholars of literature and history regard "Jamal the Unfortunate" as the first novel in the classical sense of the term written in the Kazakh language. The novel depicts the tragic fate of a young talented woman in traditional Kazakh society, which was accustomed to treating women as property, and also offers a critique of that society’s social institutions.

The novel was written and published in 1910, after which, for a number of reasons, it was not republished until the early 1990s (in particular, Dulatuly was repressed in 1928 and rehabilitated only much later, in 1988). After the collapse of the USSR, the novel was republished several times in Kazakh, but it was never translated into Russian.

This book presents the first Russian translation of "Jamal the Unfortunate." Translation by Tim Skorenko © 2025. The cover artwork is also by the translator.

Translated from Armenian to Russian. Completed in 2025.

The classic of Armenian literature Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869–1923) is known above all for his fairy tales, poems, and narrative poems. Nevertheless, Tumanyan occasionally turned to prose intended for adults, and between 1893 and 1914 he published a total of 24 short stories. In Russian, Tumanyan’s short stories were published unsystematically in collected works and various selected prose anthologies. Written in 1894, "From the Life of the Brave" remained until 2025 the only short story by Hovhannes Tumanyan that had never been translated into Russian. In the audio collection, it appears as No. 24.