Peter Constantine was awarded the 1998 PEN Translation Award for Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann and the 1999 National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov: Forty-Three New Stories, and has been widely acclaimed for his recent translation of the complete works of Isaac Babel. His translations of fiction and poetry have also appeared in The New Yorker, HarperтАЩs, Grand Street, Paris Review, Fiction, Harvard Magazine, Partisan Review, and London Magazine, among others. He lives in New York City.
Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, AsiaтАЩs Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hup├й Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.┬аFor three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He┬аwas a┬аmember of the PentagonтАЩs Defense Policy Board and the U.S. NavyтАЩs Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the worldтАЩs┬атАЬTop 100 Global Thinkers.тАЭ