Petr Borkovec

Petr Borkovec was born in Louòovice, central Bohemia, in 1970. Since 1992 the poet and arts editor has worked for the arts magazine Souvislosti (Connections) and since 2000 with the literature journal Literární noviny. As a translator, his interests have been predominantly in Russian poetry (Vladimir Nabokov, Brodsky, Vladislav Chodasevic, Jevgenij Rejn, and Jurij Odarcenko) but together with philologists he has also translated classical Greek drama and Korean poetry.