Jan Zábrana

January Zábrana ( born June 4, 1931 in Herálice, † September 3, 1984 in Prague) was a Czech writer, poet and translator.

Life

Spends his youth in Zábrana Humpolec, where he also graduated from high school in 1950 stores. He then studied at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. In 1954 he began his work as a translator. Three years later he published his first poems. In the 70s, he is depressed, suffering from diabetes in 1976 and later of cancer.

Works

Zábrana translated poetry and prose from the Russian and English. He is also the author of lyrical anthologies and co-wrote with Joseph Škvorecký detective novels.

German -language literature

  • The happiness murder ISBN 3498008447

Lyrical Collections

  • Utkvělé černé ikony (1965 )
  • Stránky z deníku (1968),
  • Lync (1968 )
  • Jistota nejhoršího (1991)
  • Zeď vzpomínek (1992 )
  • Básně (1993)

Diaries

  • Celý život (1992 ) - two parts

Essays

  • Potkat básníka (1989)

Stories

  • Sedm povídek (1993 )

Common plants with Josef Škvorecký

  • Vražda per štěstí (1962 )
  • Vražda se zárukou (1964 )
  • Táňa a dva pistolníci (1965 )
  • Vražda v zastoupení (1967 )

Treatises

  • Jak se dela bases ( 1970)

Lyric translations

Prose translations

  • Isaac Babel Emmanuilovich: The Cavalry ISBN 3-518-22151-5
  • Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin: Late hour
  • Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
  • Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva:
  • Boris Leonidovich Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
  • Boris Andreyevich Pilnyak: The Story of the uncancelled Moon
  • Andrei Platonov Platonovich: The Birth of the Master
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago ( pro rata)
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