Gerald Turner (born in England, 1947) has been translating Czech literature since the late 1970s. During the 1980s he translated leading Czech authors, including Václav Havel, Ludvík Vaculík, Milan Šimečka, and Ivan Klíma, under the pen-name of A.G.Brain. From 1985 to 1990 he was sole translator for the Documentation Centre for the Promotion of Independent Czechoslovak Literature (Scheinfeld, Bavaria). His published translations include novels, short stories, and plays. His translation of Ivan Klíma’s novel No Saints or Angels was shortlisted for the Weidenfeld Translation Prize of the British Translators’ Association in 2002, and his translation of Patrik Ouředník’s Europeana received the US Pen Translation Award in 2004. In recent years his translations of works on theology have been favourably received, particularly in the United States, where his translation of Tomáš Halík’s Patience with God was awarded the best theological book prize for 2009-10. He was private translator to President Václav Havel (2004-2011).
Gerald Turner
Writing Underground: Reflections on Samizdat Literature in Totalitarian Czechoslovakia
Writing Underground: Reflections on Samizdat Literature in Totalitarian Czechoslovakia
Martin Machovec
Title | Author | Year | Publisher | Awards |
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Writing Underground: Reflections on Samizdat Literature in Totalitarian Czechoslovakia (Writing Underground: Reflections on Samizdat Literature in Totalitarian Czechoslovakia) | Martin Machovec | 2019 | Karolinum | |
A Czech Dreambook | Ludvík Vaculík | 2019 | Karolinum Press | |
Three Faces of an Angel | Jiří Pehe | 2014 | Jantar Publishing | |
Lord Mord | Miloš Urban | 2013 | Peter Owen | |
The Other City | Michal Ajvaz | 2009 | Dalkey Archive Press | |
Patience With God | Tomáš Halík | 2009 | Doubleday | |
Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century | Patrik Ouředník | 2005 | Dalkey Archive Press | |
No Saints or Angels | Ivan Klíma | 2002 | Grove Press | |
Lovers for a Day | Ivan Klíma | 1999 | Grove Press | |
The Ultimate Intimacy | Ivan Klíma | 1997 | Grove Press | |
Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia | Michal Viewegh | 1997 | Readers International | |
Judge On Trial | Ivan Klíma | 1994 | Vintage |