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Max Lawton is an American writer and translator of Russian literature into English. He is known for translating the works of Vladimir Sorokin, whose Telluria was longlisted for the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. A total of eight of Sorokin's books are being translated into English by Lawton, as well as articles and short stories, including "Horse Soup" which won the O. Henry Award in 2022.
He received the Clarendon Fund for his Masters of Philosophy from The Queen's College, Oxford. He lives in Los Angeles, California and is described as a "Sorokin superfan".
In addition to Russian, Lawton has also translated from French and German, such as Jonathan Littell The Damp and the Dry and Michael Lentz novel Schattenfroh.
Lawton has been translating Sorokin's works since 2016, starting with novella Nastya, short story Horse Soup, and notably attempting the first English translation of Blue Lard, a more linguistically complex and longer work than the short stories.
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