Asar Eppel

Asar Eppel
Asar Eppel
Born	11 January 1935; Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	Error: Need valid death date (first date): year, month, day; Moscow, Russia
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]

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.^[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.

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

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Asar Eppel

Born	(1935-01-11)11 January 1935 Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	Error: Need valid death date (first date): year, month, day Moscow, Russia
Notable works	The Grassy Street Red Caviar Sandwiches