S. S. Koteliansky
Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky (Самуил Соломонович Котелянский) (February 28, 1880 – January 21, 1955) was a Ukrainian translator of Russian literature into English. He made the transition from his origins in a small Jewish shtetl to distinction in the rarefied world of English letters. Although he was not a creative writer himself, he befriended, corresponded with, helped publish, and otherwise served as intermediary between some of the most prominent people in English literary life in the early twentieth century.
Biography
Koteliansky was born in the small Jewish
By 1911, financed by his mother, Beila,
He was business manager of
Koteliansky ('Kot') was a close friend of the artist Mark Gertler, and they corresponded extensively from 1914 until Gertler's death in 1939.
References
- ^ a b Diment, Galya (2011). A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 28.
- ^ "Katherine Mansfield and S.S. Koteliansky in the garden" (Oil on canvas). 1920. Retrieved 27 June 2010.
External links
- Galya Diment: A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury : the life and times of Samuel Koteliansky, Montréal [u.a.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7735-3899-3
- Works by S. S. Koteliansky at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about S. S. Koteliansky at Internet Archive
- Works by S. S. Koteliansky at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by S. S. Koteliansky at Open Library