Ly Seppel
Ly Seppel (born 30 April 1943) is an Estonian poet and translator.
Ly Seppel
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- Name
- Ly Seppel
- Born
- 30 April 1943
- Birthplace
- Haapsalu
- Nationality
- Estonia
- Occupation
- writer · translator · poet
- Education
- University of Tartu
- Honours
- Order of the White Star and 5th Class
- Languages
- Estonian
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• Name — Ly Seppel • Born — 30 April 1943 • Birthplace — Haapsalu
Biography
Biography
Ly Seppel was born 30 April 1943. She graduated from the University of Tartu in 1967. She studied Estonian philology there and Turkic languages in Baku and Moscow. She later studied psychotherapy in Holbæk, Denmark. Seppel is best known for her prose for children's books and her poetry. In addition, she has appeared as a lyric translator from various Turkic languages (Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Kazakh, Tatar and Turkmen), Russian and Finnish. With her husband, she translated a selection of stories from One Thousand and One Nights into Estonian from Russian in 1984. Seppel married the Estonian poet Andres Ehin in 1975. The couple had three daughters, one of whom is Kristiina Ehin.
Poetry
Poetry
• Igal hommikul avan peo (1965) • Ma kardan ja armastan (1973) • Varjuring ümber tule (1974) • Ajasära (2003) • Mälujuur=The Root of Memory (2009)
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Ly Seppel is recorded with the occupation translator. Recorded with the occupation writer. Recorded with the occupation poet. Recorded as writer, translator and poet.
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1943
Ly Seppel was born on 30 April 1943.
Children's books
• Kaarini ja Eeva raamat (1981) • Unenäoraamat (1984)
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- “Ly Seppel”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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