Petra Couvée

Petra Couvée (b. 1963) is an author, translator and Russia expert. She taught Dutch at Saint Petersburg State University, while translating Gogol and Nabokov into Dutch, among others. 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.