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The greatest books of world literature can now be read in the Ossetian language. The translation was carried out by a North Ossetian journalist.
The classics of foreign literature have become available in the Ossetian language. A book of translations by the famous journalist Pobeda Khestanova-Butaeva has been published in North Ossetia.
The publication includes several works by American writer Jack London, in particular, “The Call of the Wild” and a number of short stories.
In the book, there is a work of another American, Ernest Hemingway, “The Old Man and the Sea”.
The author also translated Prosper Merimee’s most famous short story, “Matteo Falcone,” into Ossetian.
Pobeda Khestanova-Butaeva was born on May 9, 1945. She is a philologist by training, she graduated from SOGU. She devoted her entire life to journalism: first she worked in a newspaper, and then on the radio for almost four decades, from 1979 to 2017. Furthermore, she is already the author of three books.
