Bryan Karetnyk

Bryan Karetnyk, Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Slavonic Studies at Cambridge Univesity, is a scholar of 20th-century Russian literature and culture. His research focuses on the writing of the Russian diaspora, with a particular emphasis on the intersection between literature and politics.



Dr Karetnyk received his PhD in Russian Literature from University College London and his MA in Russian and Japanese from the University of Edinburgh. He has translated several major works by writers including Yuri Felsen, Gaito Gazdanov, and Boris Poplavsky, and is the editor and principal translator of the landmark Penguin anthology Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky (2017). He writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, the Financial Times, and The Spectator.