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Viacheslav Sereda Вячеслав Середа | |
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| Born | 26 March 1951 Nizhny Tagil, USSR |
| Died | 26 July 2024 (aged 73) Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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| Education | Leningrad State University |
Viacheslav Timofeevich Sereda (Hungarian: Szereda Vjacseszlav ; March 26, 1951 , Nizhny Tagil , Sverdlovsk Oblast – July 25 , 2024, Amsterdam) was a Soviet and Russian philologist and Hungarian scholar, literary scholar , and translator from Hungarian.
Biography
[edit]He graduated from the Department of Finno-Ugric Philology of the Philological Faculty of Leningrad State University in 1974. From 1977 to 2013, he worked at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences . During this period, he collaborated as a translator with the publishing houses "Khudozhestvennaya Literatura" and "Raduga". He is the author of the Hungarian chapters in "History of the Literatures of Eastern Europe after World War II" (volume II jointly with Yu. P. Gusev). From 1993 to 1998, he was engaged in research of archival documents related to the Hungarian uprising of 1956. One of the compilers of the collection of documents "The Soviet Union and the Hungarian Crisis of 1956".
In the 2000s, he resumed his active translation work. His translations included classics of 20th-century Hungarian literature: Péter Esterházy , Péter Nádas , László Krasznahorkai . Since 2008, he has lived in Amsterdam. He is a laureate of the Inolit (2003) and Illuminator (2008) prizes of the Foreign Literature magazine , the Masters of Literary Translation Guild Prize for the best translations of foreign literature into Russian, published in 2015, and the Milan Füst Hungarian Translation Prize (2023). He is an honorary member of the Széchenyi Hungarian Academy of Literature and Arts.
He died on July 25, 2024 after a long battle with a serious illness at the age of 73.