Born in 1923 in Russia.
Holds a PhD in Contemporary Arabic Literature and Medieval Poetry.
Career History
Professor of Arabic Literature at Saint Petersburg State University since 1951.
Academic Outcomes
Translated numerous works, including Arabic prose.
Collected works (translated from Arabic): Sheikh al-Jumu'ah by Muhammad Taymur, novels by Syrian, Lebanese, and Jordanian writers, and novels by Shawqi al-Baghdadi and Hussein Khairi, The Tragic Night.
(Stories by Algerian writers): The Profession of Dr. Fanous. (Stories by contemporary Egyptian writers): Mikhail Naimy. Seventy Ancient Arabic Poems:
10 Poems from the Mu'allaqat, in addition to the poems of Shanfari. Selections from Medieval Arabic Literature by Gibran Khalil Gibran (poems, epics, and stories). Maqamat al-Hariri, 267 pages. Dolinina translated 33 maqamat, while Borisov translated 12. Amin al-Rihani. Maqamat Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani. Poems of Imru' al-Qais by Gibran Khalil Gibran. Infatuation, Proverbs and Sayings. (Translated by Dolinina, Markov, Frolova, and Samarodnitsko).
She has numerous publications, including: Contemporary Arabic Prose: A Brief History of Contemporary Arabic Literature. On Egypt and Syria during the Period 1890-1914. A Brief History of Contemporary Arabic Literature. Egypt and Syria: (The Enlightenment Novel 1870-1914 AD) The Cultural Novel in Arabic Literature Arabic Romantic Prose of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries