David Short

David Short taught Czech and Slovak at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, from 1973 to 2011. His published translations have been both academic and literary, among the latter, works by such classic Czech writers as Karel Čapek, Jaroslav Durych, František Gellner, Jaroslav Hašek, Bohumil Hrabal, Vítězslav Nezval, Gabriela Preissová, and Jaroslav Seifert.