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Michael Henry Heim

Born

in Manhattan, New York, The United States

January 21, 1943

Died

September 29, 2012

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Michael Henry Heim (January 21, 1943 – September 29, 2012) was a Professor of Slavic Languages at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He was an active and prolific translator, and was fluent in Czech, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, French, Italian, German, and Dutch.

Winner of the The Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation 2009.

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Average rating: 4.07 · 479,156 ratings · 26,099 reviews · 46 distinct works

	The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.10 avg rating — 571,045 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in Venice 3.67 avg rating — 74,446 ratings — published 1911 — 170 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 55,892 ratings — published 1979 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Joke by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 42,368 ratings — published 1967 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal, Michael Henry Heim (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 27,682 ratings — published 1976 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Between: Michael Henry Heim and a Life in Translation by Michael Henry Heim, Esther Allen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sean Cotter (Editor) 4.57 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Readings in Czech (UCLA Slavic Studies) by Michael Henry Heim, Zlata Meyerstein, Dean Worth 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Third Wave: Russian Literature in Emigration by Michael Henry Heim, Olga Matich 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Texts, Languages, and Cultures: A Festschrift for Michael Henry Heim by Michael Henry Heim, Craig Cravens (Editor), Masako U. Fidler (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Russian Journey of Karel Havl�ček Borovsk� 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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