Radoslav Nenadál, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Radoslav Nenadál

Czech translator and writer

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1929

Place of Birth: Šumperk, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 17-Jul-2018

Profession: writer, translator, university teacher, linguist, literary scholar

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Radoslav Nenadál (30 October 1929 – 17 July 2018) was a Czech writer and translator of English-language literature.
He was born on October 30, 1929 in Šumperk, but in his childhood he moved to Prague with his family.
He then studied English and Czech at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University.
After studying, he began to work as a college educator.He translated into Czech, for example, works by Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, John Irving and others.
His translations include the novel Sophie's Choice by American prose writer William Styron.
In 1981, Nenadal won the Translation Section Award for the Philosopher and Oyster Book of James Thurber, as well as the Odeon Prize for Work in American Literature.
In 2017 he was brought to the Hall of Fame by the Municipality of Translators.He wrote several novels such as Rakvárova dcera a jiné prózy (1985), Prijd zpet (anebo radši ne), Dušinky (1989), Gaudeamus ci My te zazdíme, Aido, dále Škorpión, Zahrada ci Sešitky chrámové pevkyne.He died on 17 July 2018 at the age of 88.