Author · Kazakhstan
Maurice Simashko
Died in 2000
Maurice Simashko, born Shamis, was born on 18 March 1924 in Odessa, the son of the microbiologist David Shamis, who founded the Institute of Microbiology in Alma-Ata. A volunteer in 1943, he went through a sniper school near Ashgabat, then a pilots' school. A graduate of the Odessa pedagogical institute in 1946, he was a schoolteacher in Mary, in Turkmenistan, then a journalist, before working in Alma-Ata for Prostor and the Zhazushy publishing house. Winner of the Abai Prize in 1986 for a translation of Esenberlin, he left for Israel in 1999 and died there in December 2000.
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- NovelКолоколMaurice Simashko · 1981not translated into EnglishLiterature