{{Short description|Russian writer and translator (1935–2012)}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | image = Asar Eppel by Kubik 01.JPG | imagesize = 180px | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|1|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Moscow, Soviet Union | death_date = {{death date and age|2012|02|20|1935|1|11|df=y}} | death_place = Moscow, Russia | genre = | notableworks = ''The Grassy Street''<br>''Red Caviar Sandwiches'' }} '''Asar Isayevich Eppel''' ({{langx|ru|Аса́р Иса́евич Э́ппель}}; 11 January 1935 – 20 February 2012) was a Russian writer and translator.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.izvestia.ru/news/516031|script-title=ru:Дворцовый бал Асара Эппеля|last=Novikova|first=Lisa|date=2012-02-20|publisher=Izvestia|language=Russian|accessdate=20 February 2012}}</ref>
==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.<ref>Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, Penguin Classics, 2005.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.penrussia.org/a-m/as-epp.htm|title=Assar Eppel Biography|publisher=Russian PEN centre|accessdate=20 February 2012}}</ref>
His works of fiction include the story ''The Grassy Street'' (1996) and the novel ''The Mushroom of My Life'' (2001).<ref>Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide, Indiana University Press, 2008.</ref>
Eppel died, aged 77, in Moscow.<ref name="rian_bio">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ria.ru/spravka/20120220/570495900.html |title=Асар Исаевич Эппель. Биографическая справка РИА Новости |access-date=2012-02-20 |archive-date=2018-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914203448/https://ria.ru/spravka/20120220/570495900.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
==English translations== *''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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