© Olga Varshaver / FacebookOn July 11, at the age of 91, a literary critic, translator, researcher of the literature of Great Britain and the USA, children's English literature Nina Demurova died.
This was reported by philologist Alexander Borisenko.
Nina Mikhailovna Demurova was born in 1930, in 1953 she graduated from the Romano-German department of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University with a degree in English and literature, in 1958 she defended his thesis on the topic “Chartist literary criticism: from the history of proletarian literature and criticism in England in England in England in England, in 1983, defended in 1983. Doctoral dissertation on the topic "English children's literature of 1740-1870."
She taught at the Moscow State University and MGPI English, modern English and American literature, including children's. The first to introduce children's literature in university courses as a philological discipline.
Specialized in the work of Lewis Carroll, the author of the canonical translation of Alice in Wonderland and Alice in the Zlavrakale. She also translated the works of the works of such authors as Gilbert Kit Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, John Dunn McDonald, Lewis Carroll, Francis Eliza Bernett, James Matthew Barry, Beatrice Potter, Jennifer Garner, Narajan Razipura Kryshnasvas, John Hoyer Hoyer Hoyer Hoyer Updike.
Honorary Member of the Lewis Carroll Society in England and the USA and English Society Beatrix Potter. The holder of the honorary diploma of the International Council of Children's Book (2000).