13 Facts About Jamey Gambrell

Jamey Gambrell was an American translator of Russian literature, and an expert in modern art.

Jamey Gambrell was an editor with the Art in America magazine, and was a winner of the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Jamey Gambrell's mother, Helen Roddy, was a teacher, and her father, James Gambrell III, was a professor of law.

Jamey Gambrell had two siblings, a sister and a brother.

Jamey Gambrell received an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where her thesis was on Anna Akhmatova.

Jamey Gambrell studied at the Sorbonne and obtained a master's degree from Columbia University in Russian studies.

Jamey Gambrell's first publication was a translated article on the Soviet-Afghan war by Artyom Borovik, which appeared in the magazine Life in 1980.

Jamey Gambrell's first published translated book was of Tatyana Tolstaya's Sleepwalker in a Fog, which appeared in 1992.

Jamey Gambrell's translation was thought to capture the urgent and hyperreal quality of the original.

Jamey Gambrell translated other works by Tolstaya, as well as several books by Vladimir Sorokin.

Jamey Gambrell covered the modern art of the late Soviet period as part of her editorship and critiques for the magazine Art in America.

Jamey Gambrell translated articles by the conceptual artists Alexander Melamid and Vitaly Komar, and worked as their interpreter.

Barbara Herbich's film USSaRt documented the proceedings, for which Jamey Gambrell interviewed the participating artists.