Vilen Komissarov

Professor Vilen Naumovich Komissarov (Комиссаров, Вилен Наумович) (August 23, 1924 – June 8, 2005) has gained recognition in Russia and beyond its borders as an authority on translation theory and methods of translator training (in Russian: Perevodovediniye - ПЕРЕВОДОВЕДЕНИЕ ). He was also Head of the Department of Translation Theory, History and Criticism at Moscow State Linguistic University, and has a record of half a century of research and teaching in this field, as well as of practical work as a conference interpreter and translator.

Selected bibliography
Komissarov has over ninety publications, including books.
 * A Word on Translation (1973)
 * Linguistics of Translation (1980)
 * Theory of Translation (1990)
 * Theoretical Basic of Methods of Translator Training (1997)
 * General Theory of Translation (1999)