Igor Korchilov
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Igor Korchilov is a top-level Russian conference interpreter who worked with Mikhail Gorbachev from 1987 to 1990, a period that covered the Cold War era.
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[edit] Biography
He was an interpreter for the General-Secretary and other top officials of the Soviet Union for thirty years. He is the author of the book Translating History: The Top Russian Interpreter's Twenty-Five Years on the Front Line of Diplomacy, 1997 which is a recollection of his time spent with Mikhail Gorbachev and Western leaders particularly Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, George H. Bush and his fellow Russian interpreter, Pavel Palazhchenko.
He was born on March 3, 1941.
[edit] Source
- Translating History: The Top Russian Interpreter's Twenty-Five Years on the Front Line of Diplomacy, ISBN 0-684-81418-8
[edit] See also
- Brigitte Andreassier-Pearl, UN Interpreter
- Jesús Baigorri Jalón, UN Interpreter
- Tuan-Li Diana Liao, UN Interpreter
- Pavel Palazhchenko, UN Interpreter
- Hossam Fahr, UN Interpreter, Christian Science Monitor
- Jeffrey Tao, UN Interpreter, Speaking at Babel
- The UN Chronicle: On Conference Interpreters
- United Nations Interpretation Service Website
- Elisabeth Heyward, UN Interpreter, wife of Dick Heyward
[edit] External links
- Igor Korchilov BBC
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- Igor Korchilov Foreign Affairs
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[edit] Books about interpreters and interpreting
- Interpreters at the United Nations: A History by Jesús Baigorri-Jalón ISBN 84-7800-643-5
- La interpretación de conferencias: el nacimiento de una profesión, de Paris a Nuremberg by Jesús Baigorri-Jalón ISBN 84-8444-055-9
- From Russian into English: An Introduction to Simultaneous Interpretation by Lynn Visson, UN Interpreter ISBN 0-87501-095-4
- A Brief Guide to From Russian into English: An Introduction to Simultaneous Interpretation by Lynn Visson, UN Interpreter ISBN 0-87501-095-4
- Interpretation: Techniques and Exercises by James Nolan, UN Interpreter Hardbound ISBN 1-85359-791-0, Paperback ISBN 1-85359-790-2, Ebook ISBN 1-85359-792-9
- More Publications about Interpreting and Translation
