Michael Henry Heim
Michael Henry Heim (January 21, 1943September 29, 2012) was an American literary translator and scholar. He translated literature from eight languages (Russian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, German, Dutch, French, Romanian, and Hungarian), 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.
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