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Petr Mikeš
Petr Mikeš (August 19, 1948 Zlín, Czechoslovakia – February 8, 2016 Benešov, Czech Republic) was a Czech poet, translator, and editor. In the 1970s and 1980s he took part in the samizdat edition ''Texty přátel'' (Texts of Friends). From 1993–1997 he was the influential editor-in-chief of the Moravian publishing house Votobia, and from 2000–2004 at the Periplum publishing house (and co-founder: he took its name from a line by Ezra Pound). He was a significant translator of Ezra Pound into Czech (he translated four generations of the Pound family into Czech: Homer Pound, Ezra Pound, Mary de Rachewiltz, and Patrizia de Rachewiltz). He translated members of Pound's "circle", including Basil Bunting, T.E. Hulme, and James Joyce, and even wrote a screenplay for a biopic on the life of Ezra Pound, ''Solitary Volcano'' (unproduced). Life Petr Mikeš was born in 1948 in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, later the family moved to Olomouc, where he grew up and maintained the family home (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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