Stephen Pearl

After receiving an MA from St John’s College, Oxford in Classics (Lit. Hum.), Stephen Pearl learned Russian in the RAF during National Service. Having joined UN as an interpreter from French, Russian and Spanish, he later became Chief of the UN English Interpretation Dept. (1979-94). He designed his own innovative Interpreter Training Method, which he has used in numerous universities in USA, Britain, Russia, Cuba, Spain and China, and published articles on translation and interpretation in several journals. Among his other book translations are The Death of Dolgushev by Isaac Babel and On The Battlefields Of The Cold War by Victor Israelyan.