Ly Seppel

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Ly Seppel (born 30 April 1943) is an Estonian poet and translator.

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.eesti.ca/index.php?op=article&articleid=1049|title=Tartu Colleges toimunust: Loeng "Eneseväärikus kui relv|publisher=Estonian World Review|date=9 April 2002|access-date=17 August 2018|archive-date=18 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818052257/https://www.eesti.ca/index.php?op=article&articleid=1049|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nynorden.ee/index/nya.php|title=Sömnlösa på Sömnstranden|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712135139/http://www.nynorden.ee/index/nya.php|archivedate=12 July 2015|publisher=NyNorden|date=11 July 2015}}

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.