Anya Bostock, Translator of Trotsky and Le Corbusier, Dies at 95
Anya Bostock, a Russian-born translator and critic, died on 27 February 2018. She was known for translating works by Leon Trotsky, Wilhelm Reich, Vladimir Lenin, and Karl Marx into English. Bostock also translated Le Corbusier's design manual Le Modulor, Aimé Césaire's post-colonial work Return to My Native Land, and texts by Ilya Ehrenburg, Paul Eipper, and Ernst Fischer. After graduating from Oxford, she worked in Reuters' Russian monitoring section in London and reviewed books for the Manchester Guardian. In the 1970s, following her separation from second husband John Berger, she contributed to Spare Rib and was active in the Women's Liberation Movement. Bostock was married to Berger from the late 1950s through the 1960s.
Key facts
- Anya Bostock died on 27 February 2018
- She was a Russian-born translator and critic
- She translated works by Trotsky, Reich, Lenin, and Marx
- She translated Le Corbusier's Le Modulor and Aimé Césaire's Return to My Native Land
- She worked for Reuters in London after Oxford
- She contributed book reviews to the Manchester Guardian
- She was married to John Berger in the late 1950s and 1960s
- She was active in the Women's Liberation Movement in the 1970s
Entities
Artists
- Anya Bostock
- John Berger
- Leon Trotsky
- Wilhelm Reich
- Vladimir Lenin
- Karl Marx
- Le Corbusier
- Aimé Césaire
- Ilya Ehrenburg
- Paul Eipper
- Ernst Fischer
Institutions
- Oxford
- Reuters
- Manchester Guardian
- Spare Rib
- Women's Liberation Movement
Locations
- Russia
- London
- United Kingdom