Luba Jurgenson

Luba Jurgenson (born 1 July 1958) is a French-speaking woman of letters.
She is also a translator, a maître de conférences and codirector (with Anne Coldefy-Faucard) of the series "Poustiaki" at . Her novel "Au lieu du péril" (2014) earned her the Prix Valery Larbaud in 2015.
Biography.
She was born in Moscow, then-USSR and is of Estonian origin and Russian culture, but emigrated to Paris in 1975 at age 16.
Luba Jurgenson is agrégée in Russian (1997) and holder of a PhD in Slavic Studies (2001). She is a maître de conférences in russian literature at Paris-Sorbonne University. Her field of research is that of the literature of the camps.
Translations.
Her best known translations are: