Elena Lozinsky (Baevskaïa) was born in Kiev in 1953. After studying at the Herzen Institute in Leningrad (Saint-Pétersbourg), in 1971 she began to do literary translations from German and French into Russian. Since 1998, she has been living in the United States where she defended her doctoral thesis on Marcel Proust. She teaches French whilst still continuing to translate from French into Russian and publishing her translations in Russia. She has notably retranslated Combray, the first part of Du côté de chez Swann, the first volume of À la Recherche du temps perdu.

Elena Lozinsky will participate in:
« Withstanding the test of re-translation » , round-table, Sunday 31 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.