Wilhelm Levick, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wilhelm Levick

Soviet writer (1906-1982)

Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1907

Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukraine

Date of Death: 16-Sep-1982

Profession: poet, translator, literary scholar

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Wilhelm Veniaminovich Levick (Russian: ??????´??? ???????´????? ??´???; December 31, 1906 (13 January 1907) in Kiev – September 16, 1982 in Moscow) was a Russian poet, translator, literary critic and artist.
He translated Shakespeare, Byron, Baudelaire, Goethe, Schiller, Heine, La Fontaine, Mickiewicz, Ronsard, Du Bellay, Camões, Petrarch, Gautier, Lenau, Aragon and others.
Many famous poets, translators and writers have noted that Levik translations are characterized by high culture, poetry and precision in the transmission of the original.He wrote a number of theoretical works, which are devoted to how the problems of literary translation and the creativity of major European poets.