Elena Lappin

Elena Lappin at the forum: authors of the Munich Literature Festival 2017

Elena Lappin (born in Moscow in 1954 ) is a British writer and journalist .

Life

Elena Lappin is a daughter of Rada Biller and half-sister of the German writer Maxim Biller and spent her childhood in Prague and from 1970 in Hamburg. She later stayed in Israel, Canada and the USA. She lives in London with her family. She works as a journalist for various newspapers such as the Sunday Times , The Guardian ( Weekend column ) and for the Book Review of the New York Times . As a translator she transferred in 2007 the Prague Diary 1941-1942 by Petr Ginz from Czech into English.

Publications

She edited several literary anthologies . From 1994 to 1997 she was editor-in-chief of Jewish Quarterly magazine .

• Daylight in nightclub Inferno. Czech Fiction from the Post-Kundera Generation . Catbird Press, 1977, ISBN 0-945774-33-8 / ISBN 978-0-945774-33-4 (USA edition).
• Foreign Briges . Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998, ISBN 0-374-15758-8 / ISBN 978-0-374-15758-6 (USA edition)
  • German translation by Frank Heibert : Stranger Brides . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1999, ISBN 978-3-462-02840-9 .
• The Man With Two Heads
  • German translation by Maria Buchwald and Monika Bucheli: The man with two heads . Chronos, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-905313-58-8 . (The book deals with the Binjamin Wilkomirski case ).
• The nose . Virago, London
  • German translation by Frank Heibert: Natasha's nose . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2001, ISBN 978-3-462-03029-7 .
• Tea or sex? , Stories. Goldmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-46727-3 .
• What Language Do You Dream In? , Virago Press, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-8440-8577-4 .
  • German translation by Hans-Christian Oeser : In which language do I dream ?. My family story . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3462050455 .

As a translator

• Chava Pressburger (Ed.): The diary of Petr Ginz, 1941–1942 . Grove Press, New York 2007

As editor

• Krishna Winston (translator): Jewish Voices, German Words. Growing Up Jewish in Postwar Germany and Austria . Catbird Press, 1994, ISBN 0-945774-23-0 / ISBN 978-0-945774-23-5 (USA edition)

Web links

• Literature by and about Elena Lappin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Elena Lappin in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Elena Lappin at perlentaucher.de
• Website of Elena Lappin (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anja Höfer : Maxim Biller: Six suitcases. SWR2 , September 18, 2018, accessed September 24, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} website of the Royal Literary Fund ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (May 25, 2014)