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Petr Borkovec was born in 1970 and lives in Cernosice, southwest of Prague. He was editor with the weekly cultural journal Lidove noviny 1995-2000, and is now a freelance writer and translator of poetry. He has published five collections of poetry, and has been widely translated.

His particular interests as a translator are twentieth-century Russian poetry and contemporary Hungarian poetry, and recent projects include translations of Sophocles and Aeschylus.


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