Bela Shayevich

Bela Shayevich is a Russian translator who lives and works in New York City. She studied Comparative Literature at Emory University and earned a Masters in Russian translation from Columbia University. Shayevich is the translator of Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s The Big Green Tent and 2015 Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Scondhand Time.