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Biography 1948 Born at Sandwich, Kent 1966 Left Sir Roger Manwood’s Grammar School, Sandwich, with scholarship to Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge 1968 Spent six weeks on Russian language course in Kiev 1969-70 Ten-month studentship at Moscow University, visited Taganrog and Yalta 1971 Graduated from Cambridge University in Russian and German, awarded college prizes for original and translated poetry 1971-77 Tutored in Russian and German language/literature for all Cambridge colleges 1972-74 Researching early Chekhov in Moscow, met leading Russian literary critics including Mikhail Bakhtin 1974-77 Artistic Director of the Cambridge Chekhov Company 1977 Admitted to Cambridge M.A. 1977-80 Russian literary consultant, reader and translator, Royal National Theatre 1977-84 Freelance literary/scientific translator, researcher, writer 1980 Married 1981 Two-month British Council research studentship in Moscow 1982-84 Registered childminder 1984-87 Senior Research Associate, Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University 1985 Made persona non grata by KGB 1987 Organised three-day Anglo-Soviet Colloquium ‘Chekhov on the British Stage’ in Cambridge for the British Council 1987-90 Lectured and led seminars on the Russian novel at Anglia Polytechnic 1987-91 Director of own information consultancy GBS, supplying feasibility studies and geological translations to international oil companies entering the Russian market 1987-93 Affiliated lecturer, Department of Slavonic Studies, Cambridge University, tutor in Russian language and literature for all Cambridge colleges 1991-93 Russian lector, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge 1991-99 Director of own translation agency PMTA 1992-01 Linguistic consultant to Dr Martin Porter programming Russian, German and Dutch stemming algorithms. [See http://snowball.tartarus.org/] 1999- Freelance writer and translator