Sally Laird
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Sally Ann Laird was a British
editor and translator who specialised in Russian literature.
Laird studied at Oxford University and Harvard University
, where she gained an MA in Soviet studies in 1981.
Laird was USSR editor for the magazine Index on Censorship
between June 1986 and November 1988, when she became editor in chief. She held the job until August 1989. After leaving the magazine she worked as a translator and editor. She translated a series of Russian novels. Later she co-authored Till my Tale is Told: Women’s Memoirs of the Gulag and wrote Voices of Russian Literature: Interviews with Ten Contemporary Writers.
In 1993, Laird moved to Denmark
.
Laird and her husband Mark Le Fanu had one daughter.
United Kingdom
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editor and translator who specialised in Russian literature.
Laird studied at Oxford University and Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, where she gained an MA in Soviet studies in 1981.
Laird was USSR editor for the magazine Index on Censorship
Index on Censorship
Index on Censorship is a campaigning publishing organisation for freedom of expression, which produces an award-winning quarterly magazine of the same name from London. The present chief executive of Index on Censorship, since 2008, is the author, broadcaster and commentator John Kampfner, former...
between June 1986 and November 1988, when she became editor in chief. She held the job until August 1989. After leaving the magazine she worked as a translator and editor. She translated a series of Russian novels. Later she co-authored Till my Tale is Told: Women’s Memoirs of the Gulag and wrote Voices of Russian Literature: Interviews with Ten Contemporary Writers.
In 1993, Laird moved to Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
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Laird and her husband Mark Le Fanu had one daughter.