Anna Aslanyan is a journalist and translator. She contributes to The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and other UK-based publications, writing about books and arts. Her popular history of translation, Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History, is out with Profile in May.

Anna Aslanyan

Treasures of the Tongue: An Excerpt from “Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts

The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar

“Service, Not Servility”: On Alexander Griboedov and Yuri Tynianov

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Anna Aslanyan is a journalist and translator. She contributes to The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and other UK-based publications, writing about books and arts. Her popular history of translation, Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History, is out with Profile in May.