Perepadia Anatoliy Oleksiyovych (August 23, 1935, Popelak - June 7, 2008, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian translator from Romance languages.

Biography

Anatol Perepadia was born on August 23, 1935 in the village of Popelak, Sivasky district,

Kherson Kherson (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and , , ) is a port city in southern Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located by the Black Sea and on the Dnieper, Dnieper River, Kherson is the home to a major ship-bui ...

region, in teachers family, Oleksa Petrovych, his father, was a

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

, Efrosinia Mykhailivna, his mother, was a biologist. Parents taught in villages, often moving from one place to another. He finished the ten year school in

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region. He graduated from Taras Shevchenko University in

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

. Perepadia began reading European literature in Polish or Czech as a student, although he did not study those languages. He said that at the journalism faculty where he studied, they did not want to give a satisfactory score in French. Over time, he began to become proficient in Romance languages. For two years Perepadia worked in the Sumy region, and then for twelve years in Kyiv publishing houses, such as Dnipro Publishing House and Veselka. His last working place was the "Veselka" publishing house, where on September 8, 1971, on the eighth volume translating Maupassant he left his favorite job. He collaborated with ''Vsesvit'' magazine as a reader of foreign news, reviewer, consultant and editor. In the most difficult time, from 1973 to 1987, he remained at creative work thanks to the existence of the Kyiv Writers' Committee. He started publishing poetry in the local newspaper in the 7th grade. He made his debut as a translator in 1963 in ''Molod'' with the novel Michel Duino's ''Pharaoh Seekers''. He translated into Ukrainian from most

Romance languages The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are Language family, directly descended from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-E ...

French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

, Portuguese, Catalan. He was the first translator to complete a full Ukrainian translation of ''

In Search of Lost Time ''In Search of Lost Time'' (), first translated into English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'', and sometimes referred to in French as ''La Recherche'' (''The Search''), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. This early twen ...

'' by

Marcel Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( ; ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the novel (in French – translated in English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'' and more r ...

and ''

Gargantua and Pantagruel ''The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel'' (), often shortened to ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'' or the (''Five Books''), is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It tells the advent ...

'' by 16th-century author

François Rabelais François Rabelais ( , ; ; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A Renaissance humanism, humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholars in the Renaissance, Gr ...

. At the beginning of June 2008, Perepadia got into road accident in

. After two days in a coma, his heart stopped on June 7, 2008.

Awards

* Two-time laureate of "Skovoroda" award, which is awarded by the

French Embassy The French Republic has one of the world's largest diplomatic networks, and is a member of more multilateral organisations than any other country. France's permanent representation abroad began in the reign of Francis I, when in 1522 he sent a d ...

for the best translation carried out within the framework of the program of the same name. * Laureate of the

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"Ars Translationis" for the translation of the Portuguese novel by Jorge Amado ''The Great Trap''. * Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters and

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. * Laureate of the French-Ukrainian prize named after M. Zerov.

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