:Olga Andreyeva Carlisle

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|name=Olga Andreyeva Carlisle

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1930|1|22}}

|birth_place=Paris, France

|occupation={{flatlist|

Novelist
translator
painter

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|nationality=American

|alma_mater=Bard College

|spouse=Henry Carlisle

|parents=Vadim Andreyev
Olga Chernova-Andreyeva

|relatives=Leonid Andreyev (grandfather)

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Olga Andreyeva Carlisle (born 22 January 1930) is a French-born American novelist, translator, and painter. Carlisle, with her husband Henry Carlisle, is notable for translating Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work into English. Although Solzhenitsyn criticized the translations, Carlisle felt they helped bring his work to a wider audience and contributed to Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Prize.{{cite news |last1=Martin |first1=Douglas |title=Henry Carlisle, a Supporter of Oppressed Writers, Dies at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/books/henry-carlisle-supporter-of-oppressed-writers-dies-at-84.html |work=New York Times |date=15 July 2011 |accessdate=24 June 2019}}

Biography

Carlisle was born in Paris to a Russian literary family. Her father, Vadim Andreyev, was the son of Russian writer Leonid Andreyev. Her mother, Olga Chernova-Andreyeva, was the stepdaughter of Viktor Chernov, a Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party.{{cite web |last1=Gates |first1=Ethan |last2=Rabinowitz |first2=Stanley |title=The Olga Carlisle Collection |url=https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/1483/Carlisle%252520finding%252520aid.pdf |website=Amherst Center for Russian Culture |publisher=University of Massachusetts, Amherst |accessdate=24 June 2019}}

Carlisle attended Bard College in New York from 1949 to 1953. She met her husband Henry Carlisle during this time and they moved to New York City in 1953. She now lives in San Francisco.{{cite web |last1=Boudreau |first1=John |title=A Soviet Reunion : Literature: Olga Andreyev Carlisle's memoirs track the history of her literary family in a nation of change. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-22-vw-26221-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=22 August 1993 |accessdate=24 June 2019}}

As an artist, Carlisle's paintings have been shown in Paris and across the United States.{{cite web |title=Olga Andreyeva Carlisle |url=https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19437/lot/5029/ |website=Bonhams |accessdate=24 June 2019}} She was mentored by Louis Schanker in the 1940s; then Earl Loran and Robert Motherwell in the 1950s.