Olga Andreyeva Carlisle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Olga Andreyeva Carlisle

Date of Birth: 22-Jan-1930

Place of Birth: Paris, รŽle-de-France, France

Profession: translator, painter, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Olga Andreyeva Carlisle

  • Olga Andreyeva Carlisle (born 1930) is a French-born American novelist, translator, and painter.
  • Carlisle, with her husband Henry Carlisle, is notable for translating Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work into English.
  • Although Solzhenitsyn criticized the translations, Carlisle felt they helped bring his work to a wider audience and contributed to Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Prize.Carlisle was born in Paris to a Russian literary family.
  • Her father, Vadim Andreyev, was the son of major Russian writer Leonid Andreyev.
  • Her mother, Olga Chernova-Andreyeva, was the stepdaughter of Viktor Chernov, a Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party.Carlisle attended Bard College in New York from 1949-1953.
  • She met her husband Henry Carlisle during this time and they moved to New York City in 1953.
  • She now lives in San Francisco.As an artist, Carlisle's paintings have been shown in Paris and across the United States.
  • She was mentored by Louis Schanker in the 1940s; then Earl Loran and Robert Motherwell in the 1950s.

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