Ann Pasternak Slater

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Dr Ann Pasternak Slater (born 3 August 1944) is a literary scholar and translator who was formerly a Fellow and Tutor at St Anne's College, Oxford.

Ann Pasternak Slater is the daughter of Lydia Pasternak Slater (1902–1989), chemist, translator and poet who was the youngest sister of the poet, translator, and novelist Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), by her marriage to the British psychiatrist Eliot Slater (1904–1983). Her grandfather, the Russian Impressionist painter Leonid Pasternak, was a friend of Tolstoy's and illustrator for the novel Resurrection and several of Tolstoy's other works.

Pasternak Slater was educated at the Oxford High School for Girls in North Oxford.{{cite web| url=https://oxfordhigh.gdst.net/pioneer/ann-pasternak-slater/ | title=Ann Pasternak Slater | publisher=Oxford High School | access-date=22 September 2020 }} She joined St Anne's College, Oxford in 1976 and became the Hazel Eardley-Wilmot Fellow in English there.{{cite news| url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4662335.graduates-pay-tribute-retiring-lecturer/ | title=Graduates pay tribute to retiring lecturer | newspaper=Oxford Mail | date=2 October 2009 }}

Pasternak Slater has written many books.{{cite web| url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Ann-Pasternak-Slater/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AAnn+Pasternak+Slater | title=Books: Ann Pasternak Slater | publisher=Amazon.co.uk | access-date=22 September 2020 }}{{cite web| url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/45063/ann-pasternak-slater | title=Ann Pasternak Slater | publisher=Penguin Random House | access-date=22 September 2020 }} She is involved with the Evelyn Waugh Society.{{cite web| url=https://evelynwaughsociety.org/tag/ann-pasternak-slater/ | title=Tag Archives: Ann Pasternak Slater | publisher=The Evelyn Waugh Society | access-date=22 September 2020 }} She has written and lectured on her uncle Boris Pasternak's translations into Russian of Shakespeare plays. She has translated A Vanished Present, the memoirs of her uncle Alexander Pasternak (1893–1982), an architect, as well as Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man. She prepared the fourth edition of the Everyman complete English works of George Herbert, revising the edition of C. A. Patrides.{{cite book| last=Herbert|first=George|author-link=George Herbert|editor-first=Ann|editor-last=Pasternak Slater | title=George Herbert: The complete English works|isbn=978-1-85715-204-3|lccn=gb95052843|series=Everyman's Library | edition=fourth | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GWW6AAAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=David Campbell}}

Ann Pasternak Slater is married to Craig Raine, an English poet and a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and they have four children. She retired in 2009.