Petra Couvée

Petra Couvée (b. 1961) is Russian expert an author, translator of Nabokov, Tsvetaeva and Pasternak among others. She taught at universities in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In 2014 she co-wrote with Peter Finn The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle over a Forbidden Book (Vintage) to international acclaim. She currently lives in the Netherlands, where she is affiliated with Leiden University.