Peter Kussi


Peter Kussi was a Czech scholar and translator.
Born in Prague in 1925 he emigrated to the United States with his parents as a teenager in 1939. and later taught Czech language and Czech literature at Columbia University from 1979 to 2001. He is best known for his translation of the works of Milan Kundera, among them the novel Immortality which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He also edited an anthology of the works of Karel Čapek.

Selected translations