Viktor Golyshev is a well-known English

English language

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-to-Russian

Russian language

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 translator. His translations include Light in August

Light in August

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, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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, All the King's Men

All the King's Men

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, Theophilus North, 1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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, Other Voices, Other Rooms

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, Set This House on Fire

Set This House on Fire

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, Pulp

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, and others. He has won the Foreign Literature and Illuminator awards.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Golyshev initially scoffed at an offer to translate the fifth book in J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling

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's bestselling series ("Hell no, what am I, 8 years old?"), and saying about modern American literature in general, "It isn't quite worthy of consideration. It has almost nothing to say about life." However, he subsequently joined a team of translators employed by the Russian publisher of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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after complaints of poor translation.

He has not been part of the translating team for any of the other Harry Potter books.