Oliver George Ready

Oliver Ready is a British literary scholar and translator who specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature. Reliable sources identify him with the University of Oxford, where he has taught Russian and served as a stipendiary lecturer at St Edmund Hall.

He is especially well known for his translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, published by Penguin, which helped bring his work to a wider readership. Publisher and institutional profiles also credit him with translations of books by Yuri Buida and Vladimir Sharov, showing a range that stretches from major classics to modern Russian fiction.

Alongside translation, Ready’s academic work focuses on Russian literature and culture. That mix of scholarship and literary craft helps explain why his translations are often noted for feeling both carefully informed and alive on the page.