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Marianna Suleymanova

Marianna Suleymanova is a literary translator from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, living in Philadelphia. She is a contributing translator to ROAR: Resistance and Opposition Arts Review, an anti-war publication founded by the writer Linor Goralik. She enjoys rendering the voices of contemporary feminist and queer Russian-language writers in English and is committed to amplifying suppressed narratives and dissident voices. She is the winner of the 2024 Words Without Borders Momentum Grant. Her translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Washington Square Review, Words Without Borders, The Offing, and khōréō.

Fiction

Summer 2025

She-Bear

By Evgenia Nekrasova, translated by Marianna Suleymanova

The Kenyon Review · “She-Bear” by Evgenia Nekrasova trans. Marianna Suleymanova The human mother and the human daughter are an ordinary abridged family. Out of seventeen million Russian families, five […]