Czech
Czech may refer to:
* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus'
Places
* Czech, ...
translator
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and
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...
born in
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and List of cities in the Czech Republic, largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 milli ...
,
Austria-Hungary
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.
Career
He translated several important Czech poetry works of the 20th century into English, including
Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Seifert (; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Seifert was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides ...
,
Vítězslav Nezval
Vítězslav Nezval (; 26 May 1900 – 6 April 1958) was a Czech poet, writer and translator. He was one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the 20th century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechos ...
,
Miroslav Holub
Miroslav Holub (; 13 September 1923 – 14 July 1998) was a Czech poet and immunologist.
Holub's work was heavily influenced by his experiences as an Immunologist, writing many poems using his scientific knowledge to poetic effect. His work ...
and Jan Skácel. He also translated several German-language authors such as
Thomas Bernhard
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilizat ...
, as well as Macedonian-language books (
Mateja Matevski
Mateja Matevski (13 March 1929 – 6 June 2018) was a Macedonian poet, literary and theater critic, essayist, and translator.
Career
Matevski was born on 13 March 1929 in Istanbul, Turkey to an Albanian family of the Eastern Orthodox rite. His ...
Milan Rúfus
Milan Rúfus (December 10, 1928 – January 11, 2009) was a Slovak poet, essayist, translator, children's writer and academic. Rúfus is the most translated Slovak poet into other languages.
Life
Milan Rúfus was born to a family of brickla ...
.
Selected bibliography
Works
* ''Arrive Where We Started'' (poems), 1995
*''Snows of Yesteryear'' (memoir), 2007
Translations
* ''Modern Czech Poetry: An Anthology'', 1945 (with J.K. Montgomery)
* Richard Strauss, ''A Working Friendship: The Correspondence between Richard Strauss and
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.
Early life
Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, the son of an upper-cl ...
'', 1961 (with H. Hammelmann)
*
Paul Carell
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, ''Scorched Earth: Hitler's War on Russia, Vol. 2'', 1970
* ''Three Czech Poets:
Vítězslav Nezval
Vítězslav Nezval (; 26 May 1900 – 6 April 1958) was a Czech poet, writer and translator. He was one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the 20th century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechos ...
,
Antonín Bartušek
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,
Josef Hanzlík Josef may refer to
*Josef (given name)
*Josef (surname)
* ''Josef'' (film), a 2011 Croatian war film
*Musik Josef
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'', 1971 (with G. Theiner)
*
Óndra Łysohorsky
Óndra Łysohorsky was the pseudonym of Ervín Goj (6 July 1905 – 19 December 1989), a Czech poet of Silesian origin and awareness. He is known for his works written in Lach language (intermediate dialect between Czech and Polish) which w ...
, ''Selected Poems'', 1971
*
Reiner Kunze
Reiner Kunze (born 16 August 1933 in Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact ...
, ''With the Volume Turned Down, and Other Poems'', 1973
* ''Contemporary German Poetry'', 1976
*
Rose Ausländer
Rose Ausländer (born Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer; May 11, 1901 – January 3, 1988) was a Jewish poet writing in German and English. Born in Czernowitz in the Bukovina, she lived through its tumultuous history of belonging to the Austro-Hungarian E ...
, ''Selected Poems'', 1977
* Rudolf Langer, ''Wounded No Doubt: Selected Poems'', 1979
*
Nahapet Kuchak
Nahapet Kuchak (Kouchak) ( hy, Նահապետ Քուչակ) (died 1592) was an Armenian medieval poet, considered one of the first ''ashughs''. He is best known for his ''hairens'' (հայրեն), "four lines of couplets with a single coherent them ...
, ''A Hundred and One Hayrens'', 1979
*
Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Seifert (; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Seifert was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides ...
, ''The Plague Column'', 1979
*
Walter Helmut Fritz
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People
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* Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968)
* Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 19 ...
, ''Without Remission: Selected Poems'', 1981
*
Sebastian Haffner
Raimund Pretzel (27 December 1907 – 2 January 1999), better known by his pseudonym Sebastian Haffner, was a German journalist and historian. As an émigré in Britain during World War II, Haffner argued that accommodation was impossible not on ...
, ''The Meaning of Hitler'', 1983
* Jaroslav Seifert, ''An Umbrella from Piccadilly'', 1983
*
Miroslav Holub
Miroslav Holub (; 13 September 1923 – 14 July 1998) was a Czech poet and immunologist.
Holub's work was heavily influenced by his experiences as an Immunologist, writing many poems using his scientific knowledge to poetic effect. His work ...
, ''On the Contrary, and Other Poems'', 1984
*
Nikola Vaptsarov
Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov ( bg, Никола Йонков Вапцаров; 7 December 1909 – 23 July 1942) was a Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the ...
, ''Nineteen Poems'', 1984
* ''Voices from across the Water: Translations from Twelve Languages'', 1985
*
Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek (; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel '' War with the Newts'' (1936) and play '' R.U.R.'' (''Rossum's Universal ...
, ''War with the Newts'', 1985, new trans., 1990
*
Lyubomir Levchev Lyubomir is a Bulgarian masculine given name, a variant of the Slavonic Lubomir. Notable people with this name include:
* Lyubomir Andreychin (born 1910), Bulgarian linguist
* Lyubomir Bogdanov (born 1982), Bulgarian football midfielder
* Lyubomi ...
, ''Stolen Fire: Selected Poems'', 1986
* ''The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert'', 1986 (with G. Gibian)
* Miroslav Holub, ''The Fly'', 1987 (with J. Milner and G. Theiner)
* Jaroslav Cejka, Michael Cernik, and Karel Sys, ''New Czech Poetry'', 1988
* Vladimír Janovic, ''The House of the Tragic Poet'', 1988
*
Mateja Matevski
Mateja Matevski (13 March 1929 – 6 June 2018) was a Macedonian poet, literary and theater critic, essayist, and translator.
Career
Matevski was born on 13 March 1929 in Istanbul, Turkey to an Albanian family of the Eastern Orthodox rite. His ...
, ''Footprints of the Wind: Selected Poems'', 1988
*
Thomas Bernhard
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilizat ...
, ''Wittgenstein's Nephew'', 1986
*Thomas Bernhard, ''Cutting Timber'', 1988
*Thomas Bernhard, ''Old Masters'', 1989
*Thomas Bernhard, ''The Cheap-Eaters'', 1990
* Miroslav Holub, ''Poems Before and After: Collected English Translations'', 1990 (with I. Milner, J. Milner, and Theiner)
*
Rüdiger Safranski
Rüdiger Safranski (born 1 January 1945) is a German philosopher and author.
Life
From 1965 to 1972, Safranski studied philosophy (among others with Theodor W. Adorno), German literature, history and history of art at Goethe University in ...
, ''Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy'', 1990
* Thomas Bernhard, ''Yes'', 1991
*
Ivan Klíma
Ivan Klíma (born 14 September 1931 in Prague, as Ivan Kauders) is a Czech novelist and playwright. He has received the Magnesia Litera award and the Franz Kafka Prize, among other honors.Michael Krüger, ''The End of the Novel'', 1992
* Michael Krüger, ''The Man in the Ice'', 1994
* Heinz Piontek, ''Selected Poems'', 1994
* Miroslav Válek, ''The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Selected Poems'', 1996
*
Albrecht Fölsing
Albrecht Fölsing (1940 in Bad Salzungen – 8 April 2018 in Hamburg) was a trained physicist turned into a scientific journalist. Having studied physics in Berlin, Philadelphia, and Hamburg, he worked as an academic research assistant for the Germ ...
, ''Albert Einstein: A Biography'', 1997
* Rüdiger Safranski, ''Martin Heidegger: A Master from Germany'', 1997
* Jan Skácel, ''Banned Man: Selected Poems'', 2001
*
Milan Rúfus
Milan Rúfus (December 10, 1928 – January 11, 2009) was a Slovak poet, essayist, translator, children's writer and academic. Rúfus is the most translated Slovak poet into other languages.
Life
Milan Rúfus was born to a family of brickla ...
, ''And That's the Truth! Poems in English & Slovak'', 2005
Awards
* 1971:
Schlegel-Tieck Prize
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, for ''Scorched Earth'' by
Paul Carell
Paul Carell was the post-war pen name of Paul Karl Schmidt (2 November 1911 – 20 June 1997) who was a writer and German propagandist. During the Nazi era, Schmidt served as the chief press spokesman for Joachim von Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry. ...