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Name
  
Asar Eppel

Role
  
Writer


Died
  
February 20, 2012, Russia

Books
  
The grassy street

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Born
  
January 11, 1935 Moscow, Soviet Union (
1935-01-11
)

Notable works
  
The Grassy Street Red Caviar Sandwiches

Asar Isayevich Eppel (Russian: Аса́р Иса́евич Э́ппель; January 11, 1935 – February 20, 2012) was a Russian writer and translator.

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Biography

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.

His works of fiction include the story The Grassy Street (1996) and the novel The Mushroom of My Life (2001).

Eppel died, aged 77, in Moscow.

English translations

  • The Grassy Street, The GLAS Series, Vol 18, 1998.
  • Red Caviar Sandwiches, Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, Penguin Classics, 2005.
  • References

    Asar Eppel Wikipedia