Lilianna Lungina

Lilianna Zinovyevna Lungina (Russian: Лилиа́нна Зино́вьевна Лунгина́; 16 June 1920 Smolensk, Russia – 11 January 1998 Moscow, Russia ) was a Russian translator from French, German, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish languages. She translated into Russian:

She is the subject of a 15-episode TV documentary "Podstrochnik" ("Translation") by director Oleg Dorman (). The documentary was forbidden from showing for 11 years but after the release became a TV hit that won the TEFI prize in 2010. Her monologue has been published as a book Word for Word: A Memoir, which also contains the text that had not been included in the documentary. The book was a bestseller in Russia.

She was the wife of the screenwriter Semen Lungin (1920–96) and the mother of a film director Pavel Lungin.

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