Petr Mikeš, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Petr Mikeš

Czech poet and translator

Date of Birth: 19-Aug-1948

Place of Birth: Zlín, Zlín Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 08-Feb-2016

Profession: writer, poet, translator

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Petr Mikeš (August 19, 1948 Zlín, Czechoslovakia – February 8, 2016 Benešov, Czech Republic) was a Czech poet, translator, and editor.
In the 1970s and 1980s he took part in the samizdat edition Texty prátel (Texts of Friends).
From 1993–1997 he was the influential editor-in-chief of the Moravian publishing house Votobia, and from 2000–2004 at the Periplum publishing house (and co-founder: he took its name from a line by Ezra Pound).
He was a significant translator of Ezra Pound into Czech (he translated four generations of the Pound family into Czech: Homer Pound, Ezra Pound, Mary de Rachewiltz, and Patrizia de Rachewiltz).
He translated members of Pound's "circle", including Basil Bunting, T.E.
Hulme, and James Joyce, and even wrote a screenplay for a biopic on the life of Ezra Pound, Solitary Volcano (unproduced).