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{{Short description|British poet, journalist, historian, and translator}}
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| birth_name = Faith Elizabeth Rich
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| birth_place = [[London]], [[County of London]]
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| death_place = [[London]], [[Greater London]]
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| occupation = poet, historian, translator, journalist, contributor to ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', ''[[The Lancet]]'', ''[[Index on Censorship]]'', ''[[Physics World]]''
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'''Vera Rich''' (born '''Faith Elizabeth Rich''', 24 April 1936
==Biography==
Born in London in April 1936, she studied at [[St Hilda's College, Oxford|St Hilda's College]] of the [[University of Oxford]] and [[Bedford College, London]]. In 1959, her poetry attracted the attention of the editors of [[John O'London's Weekly]] and the following year her first collection of verse, ''Outlines'', was privately produced and received favourable reviews, selling out within six months.<ref name=Portents>Rich, Vera. "Portents and Images". London, 1963 [blurb].</ref>
Her translations of the works of [[Taras Shevchenko]], commissioned for the century of his death (1961), received
Later, influenced by Fr [[Ceslaus Sipovich]], she started also translating Belarusian poetry. Her first translation from Belarusian was the poem "Na čužynie" by [[Janka Kupala]]. Her novel ''[[Like Water, Like Fire]]'', published in 1971, became the world's first anthology of translations of Belarusian poetry into a western European language. Later she published ''The Images Swarm Free'', a collection of translations of verses by prominent Belarusian authors, including [[
Rich was the founder of ''Manifold'', "the magazine of new poetry". It was started in 1962 and appeared regularly under her editorship until May 1969, when it was suspended owing to her taking a job as Soviet and East European Correspondent for the scientific weekly ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''. At the time of its suspension ''Manifold'' had close on 900 subscribers, almost half of them in the USA. This initially temporary job at ''Nature'' lasted for more than 20 years. It was only in 1998 that it proved possible to relaunch ''Manifold''. All together, 49 issues were published under Rich's editorship. It published original
Vera Rich died in London in December 2009. Her ashes were buried in [[Ukraine]] and in the [[Church of St Cyril of Turau and All the Patron Saints of the Belarusian People]] in [[London]].
== Gallery ==
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File:Vera Rich Memorial London Church.jpg|A memorial plaque in the [[Church of St Cyril of Turau and All the Patron Saints of the Belarusian People]] in [[London]].
File:Vera Rich Belarus flag.jpg|On [[St Pancras and Islington Cemetery|St Pancras cemetery]] in London, 2008
File:VeraRichLikeWaterLikeFire2.jpg|Reading from the [[Like Water, Like Fire]] at the [[Kupala Night|Kupala]] celebration in London, 2009
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==Bibliography==
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* ''Outlines (Poems) London 1960 (printed by W. Ostrowski)''
* ''Portents and Images: A Collection of Original Verse and Translations'' (London, 1963).
* ''Like water, like fire: Anthology of Byelorussian poetry from 1828 to the present day'' (1971). {{ISBN
* ''The images swarm free: A bilingual selection of poetry'' (1982). {{ISBN
* ''Image of the Jew in Russian literature: The post-Stalin period'' (1984). {{ISBN
* ''Poems on Liberty. Reflections for Belarus'' (2004). {{ISBN
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==External links==
* [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article2086809.ece Vera Rich: translator, journalist, poet and human rights activist], ''[[The Times]]''
* Dmytro Drozdovskyi, [
* Dmytro Drozdovskyi, [
* [http://www.nn.by/index.php?c=ar&i=24866 Вера Рыч. Рэцэпт цуду], an interview for the newspaper ''[[Nasha Niva]]''
* [http://www.nn.by/index.php?c=ar&i=7123 50 гадоў творчай дзейнасьці Веры Рыч] (''50 years of translator work by Vera Rich'')
* [http://www.svaboda.org/content/article/797379.html Беларуская Вера ў Лёндане – інтэрвію на мове анёлаў], an interview for the Belarusian service of [[RFE/RL]]
* [http://www.belarus-misc.org/v-rich-trans.htm#links Examples of Vera Rich's translations], often side
* Dmytro Drozdovskyi, [http://www.vsesvit-journal.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=191&Itemid=41/ "Голос правди. Перекладач Віра Річ святкує 70-річний ювілей у Києві"]. Interview with Vera Rich
* Nécrologe. Vera Rich... In memoria [
* Hanna Kosiv, Віра Річ. Творчий портрет перекладача. 264 c. (Vera Rich. A Portrait of the Translator. 264p.) 2011
* [https://belbritain.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/1-15/ "Vera Rich: The most significant event in my life"] — Vera Rich's recollections of her first day at the Belarusian chapel in London
* Jim Dingley, [http://www.skaryna.org.uk/vera-rich-and-guy-picarda/ Vera Rich and Guy Picarda – the Centipede’s Dilemma] — on Vera Rich's translation process
* Ihar Ivanou, [http://blogs.bl.uk/european/2017/03/the-first-anthology-of-belarusian-poetry-in-english-sponsors-and-censors.html The First Anthology of Belarusian Poetry in English: Sponsors and Censors] - history of the Like Water, Like Fire - the first anthology of Belarusian poetry in English
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