Oliver Ready was born in 1976. He was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School and read Russian and Italian at Oxford before doing his doctorate . He is the Russian & Eastern Europe Editor for the T.L.S. He translated The Zero Train and The Prussian Bride by Yuri Buida and Before and During by Vladimir Sharov for Dedalus. Oliver Ready's translation of The Prussian Bride was awarded the inaugural Russian Translation Prize in 2005.