Jamey Gambrell

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jamey Gambrell
Occupation	Translator
Date Of Birth	Apr 10, 1954(1954-04-10)
Age	70
Date Of Death	February 15, 2020 (aged 65); Manhattan, New York
Birthplace	Manhattan
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Aries

Jamey Gambrell Biography

Jamey Gambrell is one of the most popular and richest Translator who was born on April 10, 1954 in Manhattan, New York, United States.

Jamey Gambrell (April 10, 1954 – February 15, 2020) was an American translator of Russian literature, and an expert in modern art. She was an editor with the Art in America magazine, and was a winner of the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

In the early 1980s, Gambrell was offered the diaries of Marina Tsvetaeva by Alexander Sumerkin, Joseph Brodsky’s literary secretary. Her translation of portions of it was appreciated by Susan Sontag, who arranged for their publication in the magazine Partisan Review.

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Jamey Gambrell is one of the richest Translator from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jamey Gambrell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gambrell was born in Manhattan on April 10, 1954. Her mother, Helen Roddy, was a teacher, and her father, James Gambrell III, was a professor of law. She had two siblings, a sister and a brother.

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Gambrell’s first published translated book was of Tatyana Tolstaya’s Sleepwalker in a Fog, which appeared in 1992. Her translation was thought to capture the urgent and hyperreal quality of the original. She translated other works by Tolstaya, as well as several books by Vladimir Sorokin. Her translation of Sorokin’s Ice (2007) was lauded for its hard-boiled rendition of the novel’s brutal cadences. Other critics have found her translations to be as elegant, playful and layered as the originals. In 2002, she published her complete translation of Marina Tsvetaeva’s Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922.

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Top Facts about Jamey Gambrell

1. Jamey Gambrell was an American translator born in 1954.
2. She translated works by prominent Russian authors such as Tolstoy and Chekhov.
3. Gambrell won numerous awards for her translations, including the PEN Translation Prize.
4. She also worked as a writer and editor for various publications.
5. Gambrell passed away in April 2020 at the age of 65.