Antonina W. Bouis has translated many contemporary Russian writers including Solomon Volkov, Sergei Dovlatov, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Stas Namin, and Sergei Lebedev. As executive director of George Soros's foundations in the USSR, she traveled extensively to represent him, often with the writers whose work she translated, as well as with her journalist husband and their son. Her 100-plus translations for major publishers range from memoirs (Sakharov, Bonner, Plisetskaya), economic history (Yavlinsky, Gaidar), and art (Malevich, Kabakov) to fiction (Voznesensky, Rybakov, Bulgakov, Aksyonov, and Radzinsky). She is on the boards of Track Two: An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy and the Andrei Sakharov Foundation. Fluent in Russian and French, she holds a master's degree from Columbia University and is a graduate of Barnard College.