Today We have Boris Dralyuk With us. He is speaking about his translation of 'The Silver Bone' Written in Russian by Andrey Kurkov. 'The Silver Bone' is Long-Listed for International Booker Prize - 2024.

Boris Dralyuk is a poet, translator, and critic. He holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA and has taught at UCLA and the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He currently teaches in the English Department at the University of Tulsa.

He is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (Paul Dry Books, 2022), co-editor with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski, of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015), and translator of Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Maxim Osipov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and other authors.

In 2020 he received the inaugural Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from the Washington Monthly. In 2022, he received the inaugural Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize from the National Book Critics Circle for translating Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees. In 2024, he received a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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