Maria Matalaev Translates Daughter of the Revolution

PICT co-founder and award-winning translator Maria Matalaev released her newest translated volume on 7 February 2025: Fille de la révolution by Vera Broido. Co-translated from the English original, Daughter of the Revolution, by Maria and Anne Foucault, the book was published by Éditions Allia. Fille de la révolution will be celebrated with a launch party at Librairie Libertalia in Montreuil on 7 March.

Vera Broido (1907-2004) was a Russian-born author who came of age as the Russian Empire gave way to the Soviet Union, and whose life and work were marked by experiences of exile, revolution, and war. Daughter of the Revolution: A Russian Girlhood Remembered is Broido’s autobiography, recounting her adventures as she made her way from St Petersburg to Siberia to Berlin and, finally, to the UK, where she spent most of her life from the 1940s onwards.

Maria Matalaev is a translator, literary scholar, and concert pianist whose translations have tackled a range of fields from history to politics to literature. Her 2015 book, Valentin Berlinsky : Le quatuor d’une vie (Aedam Musicae) was awarded the “Prix du Témoignage” at the 2016 Prix des Muses. The book’s 2019 English translation, Valentin Berlinsky: A Quartet for Life, was included by BBC Music Magazine in its 2019 list of Best Classical Music Book Releases.

A co-founder of PICT, Maria was recently awarded a translation grant by the French Ministry of Culture to translate PICT co-founder Evrim Emir-Sayers’ 2024 book, The Veil of Depiction: Painting in Sufism and Phenomenology, from English into French. Like Evrim’s original, Maria’s translation will appear from PICT Books.

The launch party for Fille de la révolution will feature presentations by Maria and Anne Foucault, a Q&A-session, and a book signing. The event is free and open to the public; details below!

Date & Time:

Friday, 7 March 2025, 19:30

Location:

Librairie Libertalia, 12 Rue Marcelin Berthelot, 93100 Montreuil, France