Michal Ajvaz

The Other City

Übersetzer: Turner, Gerald

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Reading such a world means stepping inside it, letting it infect you, bruise, scrape, poison and obsess you." Jonathan Bolton, CONTEXT

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 141mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9781564784919
• ISBN-10: 1564784916
• Artikelnr.: 25872853

Autorenporträt

Novelist, poet, critic, and translator Michal Ajvaz was born into a Russian family in Prague in 1949. He studied at Prague’s Charles University and works at the Prague Centre for Theoretical Studies; in addition to his fiction and poetry, he’s published monographs on Derrida and Borges. He received the Jaroslav Siefert Prize in 2005 for his novel Prázdné ulice ( Empty Streets). Gerald Turner has been one of the worlds foremost Czech and Slovak translators since the 70s. He has been shortlisted for the Weidenfeld Translation Prize of the British Translators’ Association and received the US Pen Translation Award in 2004. He was the private translator to President Václav Havel from 2004-2011.