Oliver James Ready (born 17 April 1976) is a British Slavist, Russian-English translator.

In 1994–1998, he studied Modern Languages (Russian and Italian) at Worcester College, University of Oxford. In 2000–2001, he did MA in Russian Studies at SSEES, University College London. In 2007, he completed his DPhil at Wolfson College, Oxford.^[1]

In 2008–2017, he was Consultant Editor for Russian and East-Central Europe at The Times Literary Supplement.^[2]

Since 2010, he has been a Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford.^[3] In 2011–2014, he was director of the Russkiy Mir Program.

Since 2014, he has been working as a teacher of Russian literature at the University of Oxford.^[2]

Oliver Ready came to the attention of the general public in 2014 when his translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment was published. In a review with the telling title "This new translation of Crime and Punishment is a masterpiece", the writer and critic A. N. Wilson writes: "Sometimes, though, a new translation really makes us see a favourite masterpiece afresh", which is followed by claims that Ready's translation is better than the classic translations of Constance Garnett and David Magarshak.^[4]

• 2005 — Rossica Translation Prize for translation of the short-story cycle The Prussian bride (author Yuri Buida) into English.
• 2015 — Read Russia English Translation Prize for translation of the novel Before and during (author Vladimir Sharov) into English.
• 2016 — shortlist of the PEN Translation Prize for translation of the novel Crime and Punishment (author Fyodor Dostoevsky) into English.
• 2018 — Read Russia Prize for translation of the novel Rehearsals (author Vladimir Sharov) into English.