Peter Urban (16 July 1941 in

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– 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 The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...

. He became famous for his translations of Russian authors, including

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, Daniel Charms, Leonid Dobychin,

Ivan Goncharov Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov ( , ; rus, Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в, r=Iván Aleksándrovich Goncharóv, p=ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ɡənʲtɕɪˈrof; – ) was a Russian novelist best known for his n ...

Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin () was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is consid ...

, and

Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( ; rus, links=no, Иван Сергеевич ТургеневIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; – ) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poe ...

. 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

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is named after him.

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