Maria Rybakova

Maria Rybakova is Assistant Professor at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan). She is a creative writer whose books have been translated into various languages, including Bengali, Spanish, French, Romanian and German. She also authored a novel-in-verse "Gnedich" about the life of Nikolay Gnedich, the first translator of the Iliad into Russian. Her most recent book is "Quaternity: Four Novellas From the Carpathians" (Ibidem Press, 2021), completed thanks to a Fulbright Grant in philosophy and Creative Writing, and the Dora Maar House Residency Fellowship. In the summer of 2024, Rybakova held a Barker Visiting Fellowship at the Durham University Library, where she read the letters of Captain Arthur Conolly, the British intelligence officer beheaded in Bukhara in 1842. Maria Rybakova's writing has also appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she reviewed several biographies and auto-biographies.