W. Gareth Jones (born November 1936) is a Welsh academic and translator of Russian works into Welsh. He was born in the Swansea Valley and graduated from Cambridge University with degrees in Russian and

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. Jones was a correspondent for the '' Western Mail'' and currently holds the position of Professor of Russian at the

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. He has produced Welsh translations of works by Chekhov ('' Y Gelli Geirios, Gwylan'', ''Storïau Tramor IV''), Solzhenitsyn ('' Un Diwrnod Ifan Denisofitsh''), Aitmatov, and others and published critical works in English on

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Selected works

* ''Nikolay Novikov : enlightener of Russia''. (Cambridge University Press, 1984). * ''Tolstoi and Britain''. (Berg Publishers, 1995.)

References

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