Michael Henry Heim

Michael Henry Heim
Michael Henry Heim
Born	January 21, 1943; Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	September 29, 2012 (aged 69); Westwood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education	Columbia University (B.A., 1964); Harvard University (Ph.D., 1971);
Occupations	Literary translator; scholar;
Employer	University of California, Los Angeles (from 1972)
Spouse(s)	Priscilla Heim, née Smith (m. 1975)
Children	3 stepchildren

Michael Henry Heim (January 21, 1943 – September 29, 2012) was an American literary translator and scholar. He translated literature from eight languages (Russian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, German, Dutch, French, Romanian, and Hungarian), including works by Anton Chekhov, Milan Kundera, and Günter Grass. He received his doctorate in Slavic languages and literature from Harvard in 1971, and joined the faculty of UCLA the following year. In 2003, he and his wife used their life savings ($734,000) to establish the PEN Translation Fund.

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