Peter Urban (16 July 1941 in Berlin – 9 December 2013) was a German writer and translator.
Biography
He studied History, German studies and Slavic studies at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and the University of Belgrade.
He became famous for his translations of Russian authors, including Isaak Babel, Anton Chekhov, Daniel Charms, Leonid Dobychin, Ivan Goncharov, Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin, and Ivan Turgenev. He also translated from Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene and Czech.
He was granted several important translation prizes, such as the Übersetzerpreis der Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, the Preis der Stadt Münster für Europäische Poesie, the Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung and the Helmut-M.-Braem-Übersetzerpreis.
A street in Belgrade is named after him.
References
- ^ "Bio of Peter Urban" (in German). Diogenes Verlag. Retrieved 22 Dec 2012.
- "Tschechow-Übersetzer Peter Urban ist tot" (in German). Focus. 10 December 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- "NA PREDLOG ADLIGATA: Šest ulica u Beogradu dobilo imena po VELIKANIMA srpske kulture!". www.srbijadanas.com (in Serbo-Croatian). 26 July 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
External links
- Würdigung Peter Urbans in der Zeitschrift "Via regia"
- Literature by and about Peter Urban in the German National Library catalogue
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- 1941 births
- 2013 deaths
- Writers from Berlin
- Translators from Czech
- Translators to German
- Translators from Russian
- Translators from Serbian
- Translators from Slovene
- University of Belgrade alumni
- University of Würzburg alumni
- 20th-century German translators
- 20th-century German male writers
- German male non-fiction writers
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