Vladimir Pereverzin Author

Vladimir Pereverzin was a Yukos manager imprisoned in Russia on fraudulent charges of having embezzled $13 billion when he refused to give false evidence against Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He did time in some of Russia’s most notorious prisons and labour camps, including two of the penal colonies political prisoner Alexei Navalny has been held in. Vladimir now lives in Berlin and campaigns for human rights.

Anna Gunin is a translator from Russian. Among her translations are Svetlana Alexievich’s Chernobyl Prayer (with Arch Tait), Oleg Pavlov’s award-winning Requiem for a Soldier, and Mikail Eldin’s The Sky Wept Fire, which won an English PEN award. Her translations of Pavel Bazhov’s fairy tales appear in Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Rossica Prize.