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Martin Hilský

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Martin Hilský

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1943-04-08 （Prague）
Nationality
Czech Republic
Languages
Czech, English
Residence History
Prague

Career

Occupations
Professor emeritus of English literature, Translator
Active Years
1965-2024
Affiliations
Charles University, University of South Bohemia
Influenced By
William Shakespeare

Education

Charles University
Faculty of Arts / Department of English
Country: Czech Republic
Alumnus and academic staff

Awards

Order of the British Empire
2001
Organization: British Government
Result: MBE (honorary)
Czech State Award for Translation
2011
Work: Works of William Shakespeare
Organization: Government of the Czech Republic
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Translations by Author

  • The Darling Buds of May
  • The Fair House
  • On Poetry and Poets
  • Troubles
  • The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner
  • Women in Love
  • The Prometheus Crisis
  • Amadeus
  • Hamlet
  • As You Like It
  • King Lear
  • Macbeth
  • Love's Labour's Lost
  • Othello
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Sonnets
  • Twelfth Night, or What You Will
  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • The Tempest
  • Cymbeline
  • The Comedy of Errors
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • The Winter's Tale
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • Cannery Row
  • Tortilla Flat
  • The Playboy of the Western World

Legacy

Renowned Czech professor of English literature and translator, best known for his Czech translations of Shakespeare, for which he received the Czech State Award for Translation in 2011 and honorary MBE in 2001.

Trivia

  • Living person
  • Recipient of the Thalia Award