Michael Henry Heim was an American literary translator and scholar. He translated literature from eight languages, including works by Anton Chekhov, Milan Kundera, and Günter Grass. He received his doctorate in Slavic languages and literature from Harvard in 1971, and joined the faculty of UCLA the following year. In 2003, he and his wife used their life savings ($734,000) to establish the PEN Translation Fund.Wikipedia →
Translations
The Flower Show; The Toth Family
Tóték by István Örkény
English · New Directions · 1982
The Joke
Žert by Milan Kundera
English · Harper and Row · 1982
The Island of Crimea
Остров Крым by Vasily Aksyonov
English · Random House · 1983
In Serch of Melancholy Baby
В поисках грустного бэби by Vasily Aksyonov
English · Random House · 1987
Astrophobia
Палисандрия by Sasha Sokolov
English · Grove Press · 1989
Too Loud a Solitude
Příliš hlučná samota by Bohumil Hrabal
English · HarperVia · 1992
The Joke (Definitive Version)
Žert by Milan Kundera
English · HarperCollins · 1993
Migrations
Seobe by Miloš Crnjanski
English · Harcourt · 1994
Melancholy Of Rebirth: Essays From Post-Communist Central Europe, 1989-1994
Az újjászületés melankóliája by György Konrád (George Konrad)
English · Harcourt Brace · 1995
Talks with T. G. Masarykem
Hovory s T. G. Masarykem by Karel Čapek
English · Catbird Press · 1995
A Bohemian Youth: Writing from an Unbound Europe
Píseň mládí by Josef Hiršal
English · Northwestern University Press · 1997
The Encyclopedia of the Dead
Enciklopedija mrtvih by Danilo Kiš
English · Northwestern University Press · 1997
Early Sorrows (For Children and Sensitive Readers)
Rani jadi: Za decu i osetljive by Danilo Kiš
English · New Directions · 1998
Novel with Cocaine
Роман с кокаином by M. Ageyev
English · Northwestern University Press · 1998
Mediterranean
Mediteranski brevijar by Predrag Matvejević
English · University of California Press · 1999
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí by Milan Kundera
English · Harper · 1999
My Century: Stories of Victories and Terrors, Glory and Grimness Across the Twentieth Century
Mein Jahrhundert by Günter Grass
English · Harcourt · 2000
The Number Devil
Der Zahlenteufel. Ein Kopfkissenbuch für alle, die Angst vor der Mathematik haben by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
English · Henry Holt · 2000
Homo Poeticus
Homo Poeticus by Danilo Kiš
English · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 2003
Death in Venice
Der Tod in Venedig by Thomas Mann
English · Ecco Press · 2004
Day In Day Out
Alle Tage by Terézia Mora
English · Harper Perennial · 2007
A Guest in My County: A Hungarian Life
Fenn a hegyen napfogyatkozáskor by György Konrád (George Konrad)
English · Other Press · 2007
Peeling the Onion
Beim Häuten der Zwiebel by Günter Grass
English · HarperCollins · 2008
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé by Bohumil Hrabal
English · NYRB · 2011
The Legend of the Sleepers
Legenda o spavačima by Danilo Kiš
English · Penguin · 2018