Summary
Biography
Publications Since 1992
Plays and Theatre Work
Cambridge Chekhov Company
Books In Print
Some Published Poems
Recent Writing
Work In Progress
Translation Services
Contact Information
George Calderon: Edwardian Genius
by Patrick Miles
Anton Chekhov: A Short Life
by Patrick Miles
Mikhail Gromov:
Chekhov Scholar and Critic
by Patrick Miles
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Biography
| 1948 |
Born at Sandwich, Kent |
1966
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Left Sir Roger Manwood’s Grammar School, Sandwich, with scholarship to Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge |
| 1968 |
Spent six weeks on Russian language course in Kiev |
1969-70
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Ten-month studentship at Moscow University, visited Taganrog and Yalta |
1971
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Graduated from Cambridge University in Russian and German, awarded college prizes for original and translated poetry |
1971-77
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Tutored in Russian and German language/literature for all Cambridge colleges |
1972-74
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Researching early Chekhov in Moscow, met leading Russian literary critics including Mikhail Bakhtin |
| 1974 |
Co-founded the Anglo-Russian press ‘Sam&Sam’ |
| 1974-77 |
Artistic Director of the Cambridge Chekhov Company |
| 1977 |
Admitted to Cambridge M.A. (Ph.D. 2010) |
1977-80
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Russian literary consultant, reader and translator, Royal National Theatre |
| 1977-84 |
Freelance literary/scientific translator, researcher, writer |
| 1980 |
Married |
| 1981 |
Two-month British Council research studentship in Moscow |
| 1982-84 |
Registered childminder |
1984-87
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Senior Research Associate, Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University |
| 1985 |
Made persona non grata by KGB |
1987
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Organised three-day Anglo-Soviet Colloquium ‘Chekhov on the British Stage’ in Cambridge for the British Council |
1987-90
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Lectured and led seminars on the Russian novel at Anglia Polytechnic |
1987-91
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Director
of own information consultancy GBS, supplying feasibility studies and
geological translations to international oil companies entering the
Russian market |
1987-93
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Affiliated
lecturer, Department of Slavonic Studies, Cambridge University, tutor
in Russian language and literature for all Cambridge colleges |
| 1991-93 |
Russian lector, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge |
| 1991-99 |
Director of own translation agency PMTA |
1992-01
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Linguistic consultant to Dr Martin Porter programming Russian, German and Dutch stemming algorithms. [See http://snowball.tartarus.org] |
| 1999- |
Freelance writer and translator |
2010-12
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Member of Patient Experience Board, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust |
2013
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Talked to East Anglian Stroke Clubs on ‘My Mother the Writer’
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2014
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Talked to East Anglian Stroke Clubs on ‘Edna’s Diary: The Story So Far’ |
2014-15
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Maintained day-to-day online biography of George Calderon’s life 1914-15: Calderonia.org |
2015-17
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Completed George Calderon: Edwardian Genius, published by Sam&Sam |
2018-
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UK publisher of Sam&Sam |
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