Monography profile

The book Nine Lives contains interviews with several major Slovak and one Czech translator of the older generation. The interviews offer a comprehensive picture of the translators’ private and professional biographies, views on various aspects of translating literary texts, and positions on questions of literary and public life, especially before 1989. The basic criteria of selection were indisputable achievements in the field of literary translation during the period in question, a willingness to speak about themselves and their work, and to be aged over seventy.