Petr Borkovec
Biography
Poet, prose writer, translator, author of children's books. Cultural programmer of the Prague café Fra. Writes regular columns and short prose for magazines Full Moon, A2, czech radio station Vltava, iliteratura and Slovak revue Fraktál. His most recent books are the short story collection Lido di Dante (2017), the poetry collection Herbarium to something worse (2018), the children's book Every Thing Has Something to Do with Happiness (2018), the prose collection Petříček Sellier & Petříček Bellot (2019), the short stories Collect the Stick (2020; expanded edition 2022), and the poems for youth Blue Agave (2021). In 2022 he published Observation Exercises (Officina Praga).
He translates from Russian: poetry by Vladislav Khodasevich, Vladimir Nabokov, Yevgeny Reyne, Joseph Brodsky, Yuri Odarchenko, etc. With linguist Matyáš Havrda, he translated Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (1998), Aeschylus' Oresteia (2001) and most recently Euripides' The Bacchae (2022, premiered in February 2023).