Rita Rait-Kovaleva
Soviet translator and writer (1898ā1988) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rita Yakovlevna Rait-Kovaleva, born Chernomordik (19 April 1898 ā 29 December 1988) was a Soviet literary translator and writer, particularly known for her translations of J. D. Salinger and Kurt Vonnegut into Russian. Rait-Kovaleva's translation of The Catcher in the Rye (as Over the Abyss in Rye) achieved initial popularity amid novel's success among Soviet readers during Khrushchev Thaw.[1]
Rait-Kovaleva received the Order of Friendship of Peoples and the Thornton Wilder Prize from the Columbia University's Translation Center.[2]