Luba Jurgenson [note 1] (born 1 July 1958) is a French-speaking woman of letters.
She is also a translator, a maître de conférences and codirector (with Anne Coldefy-Faucard) of the series "Poustiaki" at éditions Verdier . [1] Her novel Au lieu du péril (2014) earned her the Prix Valery Larbaud in 2015.
She was born in Moscow, then-USSR [2] and is of Estonian origin and Russian culture, [3] but emigrated to Paris in 1975 at age 16.
Luba Jurgenson is agrégée in Russian (1997) and holder of a PhD in Slavic Studies (2001). She is a maître de conférences in russian literature at Paris-Sorbonne University. Her field of research is that of the literature of the camps. [4]
After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Jurgenson made anti-war appeals in the French media: "Il faut porter la cause de l’Ukraine à l’Assemblée nationale" https://esprit.presse.fr/actualites/pour-l-ukraine-pour-leur-liberte-et-la-notre/il-faut-porter-la-cause-de-l--a-l-assemblee-nationale-44039
Her best known translations are:
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