Peter Urban (translator)
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Urban was born in Berlin. He studied History, German studies and Slavic studies at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and the University of Belgrade.[1]
Petar Urban 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.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 "Bio of Peter Urban" (in German). Diogenes Verlag. Retrieved 22 Dec 2012.
- ↑ "Tschechow-Übersetzer Peter Urban ist tot" (in German). Focus. 10 December 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. 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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