Manya Harari

Born in the Russian Empire, as the fourth child and youngest daughter of Jewish financier Grigori Benenson (1860–1939) and Sophie Goldberg (1862–1926), she migrated in 1914 with her family to London from Germany, where they had been visiting. She had three siblings, an older brother Jacob who died in a German concentration camp during the First World War, and two sisters, Flora Solomon and Fira Benenson (Countess Ilinska) who became a leading American dress designer. == Education ==

She was educated at Malvern Girls College and at Bedford College, London, where she read history, graduating in 1924. In 1946 she co-founded the Harvill Press with Marjorie Villiers. ==Selected books==

Translations • Involuntary Journey to Siberia by Andrei Amalrik (co-translator: Max Hayward) • The Thaw by Ilya Ehrenburg • Into the Whirlwind by Evgenia Ginzburg (co-translator: Paul Stevenson) • The Demonstration in Pushkin Square by Pavel Litvinov • The Decline of Wisdom by Gabriel Marcel • The Philosophy of Exisentialism by Gabriel Marcel • An Essay in Autobiography by Boris Pasternak • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (co-translator: Max Hayward) • The Blind Beauty: A Play by Boris Pasternak (co-translator: Max Hayward) • Story of a Life (first four volumes with Michael Duncan and Andrew Thomson) by Konstantin Paustovsky • Unguarded Thoughts by Andrey Sinyavsky • The Makepeace Experiment by Abram Tertz Autobiography • Memoirs 1906-1969 == Personal life ==

In Paris in 1925 Manya Benenson married Ralph Andrew Harari (1893–1969), a merchant banker, art scholar and collector, son of Sir Victor Harari Pasha and Emma Aghion, leading members of Egypt's Anglo-Jewish community. Manya Harari died on 24 September 1969 and was buried with her husband at East Finchley Cemetery and Crematorium. ==References==