Anna Anichkova
{{Short description|Russian writer and translator (1868–1935)}}
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| birth_date = 1868/1869
| birth_place = Caucasus
| death_date = 1935
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| nationality = Russian
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Anna Mitrofanovna Anichkova (1868/1869 – 1935) was a Russian writer and translator who published under the pseudonym Ivan Strannik. She wrote fiction in both French and Russian.{{cite book | author= | chapter= 'Strannik, Ivan' | editor= B. L. Bessonov | title=Dictionary of Russian Women Writers | pages=625–627 }}
Life
Anna Mitrofanovna Avinova was born in the Caucasus. Some sources give 1868 as her year of birth,{{cite book | editor=Axel Frey | title=Biographischer Index Rußlands und der Sowjetunion | year=2005 | publisher=K. G. Saur | location=Munich | isbn=9783110933369 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xaPjQX3A7A4C&pg=PA83}} and others 1869.{{cite book | editor1=Mary Zirin |editor2=Irina Livezeanu | editor3=Christine D. Worobec | editor4=June Pachuta Farris | title=Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia: A Comprehensive Bibliography | publisher=Routledge | year=2007 | page=1523 }} She married the literary critic Evgeny Anichkov and moved to Paris in the late 1890s, establishing a literary salon there which attracted writers like Anatole France and Vlacheslav Ivanov. She wrote novels in French, and contributed to Revue de Paris, Revue Bleu and Figaro.{{cite book | chapter=Aníchkova, Anna (1868–1935) | title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia | url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/anichkova-anna-1868-1935 | access-date=4 September 2021 }}
In 1909 the couple returned to Russia, and she began writing short fiction for the 'thick periodicals' there. After the Russian Revolution in 1917 she concentrated on translation rather than fiction.
Works
=Novels=
- {{cite book | title=ИНГИЛЬДА: ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЙ РОМАН ТРИНАДЦАТАГО СТОЛ'ЬТШ. | language=ru | trans-title=Ringil'da: A historical novel of the thirteenth century | year=1900}}
- {{cite book | title=L'appel de l'eau | language=fr | trans-title=The Call of Water | year=1902 | location=Paris | publisher=Société du Mercure de France}}
- {{cite book | title=La statue ensevelie | language=fr | trans-title=The Buried Statue | year=1902 | location=Paris | publisher=Calmann-Lévy}}
- {{cite book | title=L'ombre de la maison | language=fr | trans-title=The Shadow of the House | year=1904 | location=Paris | publisher=Calmann-Lévy }}
- {{cite book | title=Les nuages | language=fr | trans-title=The Clouds | year=1905 | location=Paris | publisher=Calmann-Lévy }}
=Others=
- (trans.) {{cite book | author=Maxim Gorky | author-link=Maxim Gorky | title=Les Vagabonds | location=Paris | publisher=Mercure de France }}
- (trans.) {{cite book | author=Maxim Gorky | author-link=Maxim Gorky | title=Twenty-six and one: and other stories from the Vagabond series | location=New York | publisher= J.F. Taylor & Co | year=1902}}
- {{cite book | title=La pensée russe contemporaine | language=fr | trans-title=Contemporary Russian Thought | year=1903 | location= Paris | publisher=A. Colin}}
- {{cite book | title=Les mages sans étoile: ames russes | language=fr | trans-title=Magi without a star: Russian souls | year=1906 | location=Paris | publisher=Calmann-Lévy}}
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Category:Year of birth uncertain
Category:Writers from the Russian Empire
Category:Translators from the Russian Empire
Category:Russian–French translators
Category:Writers from the Russian Empire in French
Category:20th-century pseudonymous writers