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Patrik Ouředník
Patrik Ouředník (in French sometimes known as Patrick; born 23 April 1957) is a Czech author and translator, living in France.
Biography
Ouředník was born on 23 April 1957 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He spent his youth in Prague. In 1984 he emigrated to France, where he first worked as a chess consultant, then as a librarian. From 1986 to 1998 he served as editor and head of the literature section of the quarterly L'Autre Europe. In 1992 he was instrumental in founding the Free University of Nouallaguet, and he has lectured there since 1995. Translator from French into Czech (François Rabelais, Alfred Jarry, Raymond Queneau, Samuel Beckett, Henri Michaux, Boris Vian, Claude Simon...) and from Czech into French (Bohumil Hrabal, Vladimír Holan, Jan Skácel, Miroslav Holub, Jiří Gruša, Ivan Wernisch...), Ouředník is also the author of various literary texts.
Work
Three of his novels were translated into English: A complete list of his work includes:
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