Petr Borkovec

Petr Borkovec is a Czech poet, translator and journalist.
He studied Czech language and literature at the Philosophical Faculty of the Charles University but did not finish his studies.
His poems have been translated into almost all European languages. His books have been published in Austria and in Italy. Borkovec translates mostly 20th-century Russian poetry.

Works

U řek babylónských, Torst, 1996 - anthology of Russian emigrant poetry
Sophocles: Král Oidipús, premiered at HaDivadlo in 1998, in print by Větrné mlýny in 1999 — translated with Matyáš Havrda
Jasná luna v prázdných horách, Paseka, 2001 — anthology of classical Korean poetry, with Vladimír Pucek
Aischylos: Oresteia, premiered a published by the National Theatre June 18, 2002 — translated with Matyáš Havrda
Vladimir Nabokov: Ut pictura poesis, Triáda, 2002) — translated with Jaroslav Kabíček
Vladislav Khodasevich: Těžká lyra, Opus, 2004 — poems translated by Petr Borkovec, esseys translated by Miluše Zadražilová
Yuri Odartschenko: Verše do alba, Fra, 2005
Yevgeny Rein: Bylo, byli, byla, byl…, Opus, 2005

His translations of poems by authors such as Zinaida Gippius, Georgy Ivanov, Joseph Brodsky were published in magazines.

1995 — Cena Jiřího Ortena in 1994 for his book Ochoz
2001 — Hubert-Burda-Preis and Norbert-C.-Kaser-Preis for the German translation of his book Polní práce
2002 — Prémie Tomáše Hrácha for his translation of Oresteia
2004 — Cena Josefa Jungmanna for his translation of a part of Heavy Lyre by Vladislav Khodasevich