VLADIMIR MEGRE
Author of The Ringing Cedars Series
Vladimir Megre, born in 1950, was a well-known entrepreneur from a Siberian city of Novosibirsk. In 1995 -- after hearing a fascinating account about the power of 'ringing cedars' from a Siberian elder -- he organised a trade expedition into the Siberian taiga to rediscover the lost technique of pressing virgin cedar nut oil containing high curative powers, as well as to find the ringing cedar tree. However, his encounter on this trip with a Siberian woman named Anastasia transformed him so deeply that he abandoned his business and went to Moscow to write a book about the spiritual insights she shared with him. Vladimir Megre now lives near the city of Vladimir, Russia, 240 km (150 miles) east of Moscow, devoting himself to writing and finishing the eighth book in the Ringing Cedars Series. Following the runaway success of his Series, he has spoken at readers' conferences throughout Russia and Europe, as well as established the Anastasia Foundation ( www.anastasia.ru ), a non-profit organisation aimed at promoting the ideas contained in the books and providing support to Russia's nascent eco-village movement. Vladimir Megre can be contacted by e-mail at megre@online.sinor.ru
Vladimir Megre, author of the life-changing The Ringing Cedars Series.
JOHN WOODSWORTH
Translator of The Ringing Cedars Series into English
John Woodsworth, originally from Vancouver (British Columbia), has forty years of experience in Russian-English translation, from classical poetry to modern short stories. Since 1982 he has been associated with the University of Ottawa in Canada as a Russian-language teacher, translator and editor, most recently as a Research Associate and Administrative Assistant with the University's Slavic Research Group. A published Russian-language poet himself, he and his wife -- poet and amateur artist Susan K. Woodsworth -- are directors of the Sasquatch Literary Arts Performance Series in Ottawa. Now a Certified Russian-English Translator, John Woodsworth is in the process of translating the remaining volumes in Vladimir Megre's Ringing Cedars Series. His professional web-site is at www.kanadacha.ca and John Woodsworth can be contacted by e-mail at translator@ringingcedars.com
John Woodsworth, translator of The Ringing Cedars Series by Vladimir Megre into the English language.
LEONID SHARASHKIN
Editor of The Ringing Cedars Series in English
Leonid Sharashkin is writing his doctoral dissertation on the spiritual, cultural and economic significance of the Russian dacha gardening movement, at the University of Missouri at Columbia. After receiving a Master's degree in Natural Resources Management from Indiana University at Bloomington, he worked for two years as Programme Manager at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Russia) in Moscow, where he also served as editor of Russia's largest environmental magazine, The Panda Times. Together with his wife, Irina Sharashkina, he has translated into Russian Small is beautiful and A guide for the perplexed by E.F. Schumacher, The secret life of plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, The continuum concept by Jean Liedloff and Birth without violence by Frederick Leboyer.