I am a translator, a writer, a children’s books specialist, and an independent scholar based in New York City. I translated over fifty books from English into Russian, often together with my sister Galina Gimon: young readers’ novels, graphic novels, and picture books, as well as historical fiction, non-fiction, and scholarly books.

Among the authors are C.S. Lewis, Enid Blyton, Elizabeth Goudge, Philippa Pearce, Philippa Gregory, Carl Sandburg, Louise Fitzhugh, Jane Yolen, Lois Lowry, Meg Rosoff, Jacqueline Kelly, B.J. Novak, Sean Rubin, Brian Gallagher, and Jean Little. I co-authored three children’s books for the Children’s Project of Ludmila Ulitskaya. My book The Ugly Duckling, Harry Potter, and Others: A Guide to Children’s Books About Orphans was published in Moscow.

I write about children’s literature in many magazines, collections, and online publications in Russian and English. In collaboration with Andrea Lanoux and Kelly Herold I issued Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991–2017 (Brill|Ferdinand Schöningh, 2022). I teach translation and Russian language to school and college students. 

Here is my website http://olgabukhina.com/.