Michael Henry Heim is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has taught for more than 35 years. He has translated contemporary and classical fiction and drama from the Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Russian, and Serbian/Croatian.
His work includes Anton Chekhov’s Life and Thought: Selected Letters, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, and My Century and Peeling the Onion by Günter Grass. He has recently published new translations of Chekhov’s plays (Modern Library/Random House) and Mann’s Death in Venice (Ecco/HarperCollins) and is currently working on his first translation from the Chinese.
He has been the recipient of numerous fellowships (Fulbright, Guggenheim) and translation prizes, including the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation.
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