Asar Eppel | |
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Born | Moscow, Soviet Union | 11 January 1935
Died | 20 February 2012 Moscow, Russia | (aged 77)
Notable works | The Grassy Street Red Caviar Sandwiches |
Asar Isayevich Eppel ( Russian: Аса́р Иса́евич Э́ппель; 11 January 1935 – 20 February 2012) was a Russian writer and translator. [1]
Eppel was born in Ostankino, a suburb of Moscow. He studied architecture at the Institute of Civil Engineering. He worked as a translator in the Soviet Union, being unable to publish his fictional works under the Soviet Government. He translated Bruno Schulz and Wisława Szymborska from the Polish, the foreign language he is most proficient in, and poems from Petrarch, Boccaccio, Rudyard Kipling and Berthold Brecht. [2] [3]
His works of fiction include the story The Grassy Street (1996) and the novel The Mushroom of My Life (2001). [4]
Eppel died, aged 77, in Moscow.