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Michael Henry Heim (1943–2012)

Author of Contemporary Czech

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Michael Henry Heim was born in New York on January 21, 1943. He received an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and a doctorate in Slavic languages from Harvard University. He was fluent in Czech, French, German, Italian, Russian and Serbian/Croatian and possessed a reading knowledge of show more six more languages. He became a professor of Slavic languages at the University California at Los Angeles in 1972 and served as chairman of the Slavic languages department from 1999 to 2003. He was known for his translations of works by Gunter Grass, Milan Kundera, Thomas Mann and Anton Chekhov. He received numerous awards for his work including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2005, the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation in 2009, and the PEN Translation Prize in 2010. He died from complications of melanoma on September 29, 2012 at the age of 69. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1983) — Translator, some editions — 22,494 copies
Death in Venice (1902) — Translator, some editions — 5,359 copies
The Joke (1969) — Translator, some editions — 3,821 copies
The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure (1997) — Translator, some editions — 1,917 copies
Too Loud a Solitude (1990) — Translator, some editions — 1,653 copies
My Century (1999) — Translator, some editions — 1,165 copies
The Seagull + Uncle Vanya + Three Sisters + The Cherry Orchard (1895) — Translator, some editions — 1,163 copies
Peeling the Onion (2006) — Translator, some editions — 916 copies
Homecoming (2005) — Translator, some editions — 708 copies
Novel with Cocaine (1934) — Translator, some editions — 631 copies
The Encyclopedia of the Dead (1983) — Translator, some editions — 563 copies
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964) — Translator, some editions — 424 copies
The Ministry of Pain (2005) — Translator, some editions — 402 copies
Wonder (2009) — Translator, some editions — 231 copies
Adventures In Immediate Irreality (1936) — Translator, some editions — 191 copies
Chekhov (1984) — Translator, some editions — 164 copies
The Island of Crimea (1981) — Translator, some editions — 141 copies
Los verbos auxiliares del corazón. Introducción a las bellas letras. (1985) — Translator, some editions — 103 copies
Fording the Stream of Consciousness (1988) — Translator, some editions — 78 copies
Uncle Fedya, His Dog and His Cat (1993) — Translator, some editions — 75 copies
Lend Me Your Character (2005) — Translator, some editions — 59 copies
In Search of Melancholy Baby (1987) — Translator, some editions — 58 copies
The Death of Mr. Baltisberger (1975) — Translator, some editions — 41 copies
The White Disease (1937) — Translator, some editions — 41 copies
The Man Between: Michael Henry Heim and a Life in Translation (2014) — Contributor — 23 copies

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