Martin Hilský

Prof. Martin Hilský MBE (born 8 April 1943 in Prague) is professor emeritus of English literature at Charles University in Prague and a translator.^[1] He is most acclaimed for his translations into Czech of William Shakespeare's works for which he was awarded the 2011 Czech State Award for Translation.^[2] In 2001 he was named an honorary holder of the Order of the British Empire. He has also written extensive prefaces and epilogues for several books.^[1]^[3]

Translations

Herbert Ernest Bates: The Darling Buds of May
Jack Cope: The fair house
T. S. Eliot: On Poetry and Poets
J. G. Farrell: Troubles
Ring Lardner: The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner
D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love
Thomas N. Scortia: The Prometheus Crisis (with Kateřina Hilská, his wife)
Peter Shaffer: Amadeus
William Shakespeare: Hamlet, As you like it, King Lear, Macbeth, Love's Labour's Lost, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sonnets, Twelfth Night, or What You Will, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, Cymbeline, The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Winter's Tale, The Taming of the Shrew
John Steinbeck: Cannery Row, Tortilla Flat
John Millington Synge: The Playboy of the Western World

References

^ ^a ^b "Martin Hilský má rád slova v akci". 9 June 2003.
^ "Martin Hilský získal státní cenu za překladatelské dílo". Hospodářské Noviny. 27 October 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
^ "Martin Hilský | DALC".