Collection: James Naughton

James Naughton (1950–2014) was a translator of Czech literature and poetry and a professor of Czech and Slovak language and literature at Oxford University. In addition to Cutting It Short and The Little Town Where Time Stood Still, he translated Hrabal’s Total Fears: Letters to Dubenka.
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