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Apr 26, 1920 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Died on 01 Jan 2010 (aged 89)
Russian literature historian
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About Ronald Hingley
- Dr Ronald Francis Hingley (26 April 1920, Edinburgh – 23 January 2010) was an English scholar, translator and historian of Russia, specializing in Russian history and literature. Hingley was the translator and editor of the nine-volume collection of Chekhov's works published by Oxford University Press between 1974 and 1980 (known as the Oxford Chekhov).
- He also wrote numerous books including biographies of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Stalin and Boris Pasternak.
- He won the James Tait Black Award for his 1976 biography A New Life of Anton Chekhov.
- He also translated several works of Russian literature, among them Alexander Solzhenitsyn's classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich which Hingley co-translated with Max Hayward. He was a Governing Body Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1961 to 1987 and an Emeritus Fellow from 1987 onwards.
