Brita Lotsberg Bryn (b. 1966) completed her doctoral thesis on Pasternak’s My Sister Life (Pasternaks Min søster livet. Kraften, følelsen og prismet, Bergen 1997) at the Department of Russian Studies (now Department of Foreign Languages), University of Bergen, in 1997. During the period 1989-2001 she spent almost 7 years in Moscow in connection with studies, research and employment at The Royal Norwegian Embassy. She has also been employed as an assisting lecturer (1997-9), senior lecturer (1998-9) and associate professor (2002-3) at the Department of Russian Studies, University of Bergen, teaching Russian language, literature and background studies. Bryn has got long experience within interpreting, translation (including a translation into Norwegian of My Sister Life and a selection of Norwegian poems into Russian, Polnochnoe solntse i severnoe siianie, 2004), consulting (including Stor norsk-russisk ordbok, a Norwegian-Russian dictionary edited by Valerii Berkov, 2003) and election observation. Up until recently, her research has mainly been concerned with Russian poetry, especially of the 1920s, but also of the 1990s. As a post doctoral fellow of the project, she will focus on contemporary Russian prose and, more specifically, on authenticity and irony in Russian literature after perestroika.

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