Ludmila Vassilyeva
Russian scholar (born 1942) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ludmila Vassilyeva (born May 23, 1942) is a Russian scholar who is an expert on Urdu poetry and literature. She teaches at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
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Vassilyeva graduated from Moscow State University (1965) and received a Ph.D. in 1987. Her doctoral thesis was on Altaf Hussain Hali.[1]
From 1967 to 1984, Vassilyeva was Faiz Ahmed Faiz's interpreter as he travelled throughout the Soviet Union. Her book Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Hayat aur Takhliqaat, published in 2006, was the first literary biography of Faiz.[2]
Vassilyeva has written extensively on Faiz and Muhammad Iqbal in both Urdu and Russian. She has translated many other Urdu poets including Ghalib and Majurh.[2] She teaches Urdu literature at Moscow University and Russian State University for the Humanities.
For her outstanding contribution to Urdu studies she was conferred Sitara-i-Imtiaz award from President of Pakistan.
- Parvarish-e-Lauh-o-Qalam; Translated from Russian by Osama Farooqui and Ludmilla Vassilyeva. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2004.
- The formation of Urdu ghazal: The origins of the genre; Translated from Russian by Aamer Sohail.
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