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David McDuff

David McDuff (born 1945, Sale, Cheshire, England) is a British translator, editor and literary critic.He attended the University of Edinburgh, where he studied Russian and German. He married mathematician Dusa McDuff, but they separated in around 1975. After living for some time in the Soviet Union, Denmark, Iceland, and the United States, he eventually settled in the United Kingdom, where he worked for several years as a co-editor and reviewer on the literary magazine Stand. He then moved to London, where he began his career as a literary translator. Wikipedia