Leonid Solomonovich Mil ( April 2, 1938 , Kaunas , Lithuania - October 4, 1992 , Moscow ) - Russian translator.
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Biography
Four-year-old was taken out by a nanny in Lithuanian from the Kaunas ghetto . He graduated from the Literary Institute. A.M. Gorky (1961). Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR (1975). Translated mainly from Armenian and Lithuanian ( Grigor Narekatsi and others). He was a close friend of Yuri Dombrovsky .
In 1990 he left for permanent residence in Israel , but after some time he returned to Moscow. Then he came to Israel again. He finished the novel about the work of Narekatsi “Spirit and Flesh” (Moscow: Ex libris, 1992).
On October 4, 1992, his wife and daughter Mila found him hanging from their room. He did not leave any suicide notes. On October 10, Mily’s body was cremated in the Khovansky crematorium.
Translations
- Paulus Shirvis . Native birch trees make noise. Moscow, 1961. Co-authored with David Markish
- Antanas Wentslova . You know the land. Moscow, 1965
- Antanas Wentslova. Evening Star. Moscow, 1972
- Eduardas Mezhelaitis . Micropoems. Moscow, 1974
- Eduardas Mezhelaitis. My Ithaca. Moscow, 1978
- Grigor Narekatsi. Book of mournful chants. Ep 1986
Links
- Leonid Mil on the site "Age of Translation"
- Obituary (Kommersant. 1992. No. 7 (160), Oct. 13.