Anna Kareninová, formerly Fureková, (born 28 March 1954 in Prague) is a Czech translator from English, French and Italian. She translated all the Louis-Ferdinand Céline novels into Czech, as well as the complete ''Cantos'' by

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

. She also translated works by Guillaume Apollinaire,

René Char René Émile Char (; 14 June 1907 – 19 February 1988) was a French poet and member of the French Resistance. Biography Char was born in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse department of France, the youngest of the four children of Emile ...

, Annie Girardot, Michel de Ghelderode, Nathalie Sarraute and several books by Marguerite Duras. She also translates Milan Kundera's French-language novels into Czech, his native language. In 2019, she received the Czech State Award for Translation for her body of work. From 1991 to 1996, she was the editor-in-chief of '. She was married to poet Petr Kabeš. In 2021, she was awarded the

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