his retirement in 1986 to work as a freelance writer; they included work by Pushkin and 19th-century poets, before culminating in a 1992 edition of Dostoevsky's The Idiot which won him an international reputation. He was also an exceptional translator of the work of Joseph Brodsky, the Nobel laureate, who became a close friend. Brodsky's poetry cycle In England is dedicated to Myers, who appears in the poem East Finchley, the London suburb where the devoted north-easterner was incongruously happy.from The Guardian: Alan Myers obituary
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