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Olga Andreyeva Carlisle - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Olga Andreyeva Carlisle
- Olga Andreyeva Carlisle (born 1930) is a French-born American novelist, translator, and painter.
- Carlisle, with her husband Henry Carlisle, is notable for translating Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work into English.
- Although Solzhenitsyn criticized the translations, Carlisle felt they helped bring his work to a wider audience and contributed to Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Prize.Carlisle was born in Paris to a Russian literary family.
- Her father, Vadim Andreyev, was the son of major Russian writer Leonid Andreyev.
- Her mother, Olga Chernova-Andreyeva, was the stepdaughter of Viktor Chernov, a Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party.Carlisle attended Bard College in New York from 1949-1953.
- She met her husband Henry Carlisle during this time and they moved to New York City in 1953.
- She now lives in San Francisco.As an artist, Carlisle's paintings have been shown in Paris and across the United States.
- She was mentored by Louis Schanker in the 1940s; then Earl Loran and Robert Motherwell in the 1950s.
