Stephen Pearl

Stephen Pearl was born, raised, and educated in the United Kingdom. He learned Russian during his service in the Royal Air Force and graduated from St John's College, Oxford, with an MA in Classics. He moved to New York in order to work as a French, Russian, and Spanish interpreter at the United Nations, eventually becoming Chief of the English interpretation section. After retiring, he developed a new method of teaching simultaneous interpretation that he has presented at institutions around...See more

Stephen Pearl was born, raised, and educated in the United Kingdom. He learned Russian during his service in the Royal Air Force and graduated from St John's College, Oxford, with an MA in Classics. He moved to New York in order to work as a French, Russian, and Spanish interpreter at the United Nations, eventually becoming Chief of the English interpretation section. After retiring, he developed a new method of teaching simultaneous interpretation that he has presented at institutions around the world. Stephen spends his days translating classic Russian literature-most notably the works of Ivan Goncharov. His translation of Oblomov earned him the 2008 ASTEEL Translation Prize, and his translation of The Same Old Story was short-listed for the 2016 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Pearl's translation of Tchaikovsky's letters is set to be published by Yale University Press in 2017. See less