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Daniel Micka
Daniel Micka, 2007
Daniel Micka, 2007
Born (1963-04-22) 22 April 1963 (age 61)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Occupationshort story writer, translator
LanguageCzech
CitizenshipCzech Republic
Period1992–present

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Daniel Micka (born 22 April 1963 in Prague) is a Czech writer and translator from English and French into Czech.

His stories have been published since 1992 in a range of Czech literary periodicals, later he has published three collections of his stories in a book form. The first book Overwhelmed by Love for Someone was published in 1996, and its sequel Fear of People in 2001. His next related collection Looking for Someone and Dreaming About Making Love to Them was released first in 2007 as an e-book and in a book form in 2011. His stories became the inspiration for two plays and some have been published in translation into Finnish, Dutch and Polish in foreign literary anthologies and magazines.

He translates books about philosophy, psychology and religion from various English-language authors, including Stuart Wilde, Norman Vincent Peale, Henryk Skolimowski, John N. Gray, Daniel A. Helminiak, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Ian Buruma, David Benatar, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Dambisa Moyo, Christopher Lasch, Harriet A. Washington, David Bakan, Dan Allender, Ronald Dworkin and others. The subject of several books he translated are views of Sigmund Freud and Otto Weininger. He has translated two books by Boris Cyrulnik from French into Czech. He has also translated films, documentaries and screenplays for Czechoslovak Television and the company Alfafilm.

Daniel Micka, in addition to writing prose now dedicates himself to translating from English and French into Czech for various publishers. He also works as a book editor. He lives and works in Prague in the Czech Republic.

Works

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Magazine articles

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Individual Micka's stories have been published since 1992 in Tvar,[1] Literární noviny,[2] Vokno,[3] Iniciály,[4] Revolver Revue[5] etc.[6] literary magazines.

The supplement of Tvar – TVARy – also published a small collection of stories:

  • Strach z lidí. [Fear of People.] Series TVARy, vol. 2. 1995. – "Strach z lidí". Tvar. 6 (2): 1–32 (suppl.). 26 January 1995.
  • Hledání člověka. [Looking for Someone.] Series TVARy, vol. 19. 2004. – "Hledání člověka". Tvar. 15 (19): 1–32 (suppl.). 18 November 2004. ISSN 0862-657X.

Published books

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  • Samou láskou člověka sníst. [Overwhelmed by Love for Someone.] Brno: Petrov. 1996. ISBN 80-85247-72-0.
– A collection of twenty three short stories expressing the feelings of a lonely man who finds the courage to approach people but looks for his place in life in vain; the main theme of these stories is finally death and the indifference to others and their indifference to the individual.
– A collection of forty two stories on various themes linked by the feeling of the rootlessness and groping of a man – his embarrassment over his life and interpersonal relations, his fear of other people; the book is in stark contrast to the first but is in fact a continuation.
  • Hledání člověka a sny o milování se s ním. [Looking for Someone and Dreaming About Making Love to Them.] Praha : dybbuk. 2011. ISBN 978-80-7438-042-6.
    • E-book: Hledání člověka a sny o milování se s ním [E-kniha]. Praha : dybbuk, 2011. 144 pages (PDF). EAN EK167551.[7] – revised edition
    • The book was originally published as an e-book: Hledání člověka a sny o milování se s ním. Praha (e-book): dybbuk. 2007. (Beletrie; vol. 05.)[8]
– The next collection of short stories is based on extraordinary experiences of the narrator, who appears in them in a range of unusual forms but in an unchangeable role; the literary and existential testimony of an individual looking for someone and dreaming about making love to them.

Published in anthologies

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Translated into foreign languages

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  • —— (September 1994). "Illusorinen murha". Parnasso (in Finnish). 44 (3). Translated by Eero Balk. Helsinki: 322. ISSN 0031-2320.
  • —— (2004). "Ystäväkauppa". Bohemia (in Finnish) (1). Translated by Eero Balk. Helsinki. ISSN 1456-9493.[9]
  • —— (December 2007). "Verhalen : Adoptie; Ontsnapping; Zoenen van een egel in een kooi". Tijdschrift voor Slavische Literatuur (in Dutch) (48). Translated by Herbert van Lynden. Amsterdam: 36–47. ISSN 0922-1182.[10] Available online – three stories from the book Strach z lidí [Fear of People] (2001).
  • —— (December 2012). "Verhalen : Mijn terechtstelling; Kooi met bavianen; Kastanjes". Tijdschrift voor Slavische Literatuur (in Dutch) (63). Translated by Herbert van Lynden. Amsterdam: 71–75. ISSN 0922-1182. Available online – three stories from the book Samou láskou člověka sníst [Overwhelmed by Love for Someone] (1996).
  • —— (2005). Translated by Barbara Kudaj. "W poszukiwaniu człowieka". Czeskie Revue (Racibórz-Ostróg) [online] (in Polish). Available online (archived link) – three stories from the collection Hledání člověka [Looking for Someone] (2004).

Translations from English into Czech

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Awards and nominations
  • Translation of the book Chandak Sengoopta Otto Weininger, Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna was nominated for the Academia Publishing House Prize for the translation of scientific or non-fiction work in 2009.[11]

Translations from French into Czech

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  • Cyrulnik, Boris (2020): Když si dítě sáhne na život. (Child Suicide.) [Quand un enfant se donne « la mort ».] Praha: Stanislav Juhaňák–Triton. ISBN 978-80-7553-788-1.
  • Cyrulnik, Boris (2020): V noci jsem psal o slunci: Psaní jako prostředek terapie. (At Night, I Would Write Suns.) [La nuit, j'écrirai des soleils.] Praha: Stanislav Juhaňák–Triton. ISBN 978-80-7553-819-2.

Literature

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References

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  1. ^ "Sny". Tvar. 14 (9): 12. 1 May 2003. ISSN 0862-657X.
  2. ^ Literární noviny, Vol. 3 (25): 9; (27): 9; (31): 9; (49): 9. 1992. – Vol. 4 (4): 8; (9): 8; (19): 9. 1993 – Vol. 5 (2): 9; (19): 8; (27): 8–9. 1994 – Vol. 6 (24): 8; (38): 9. 1995 – Vol. 7 (1): 9; (19): 12; (21): 13; (26): 11; (27): 11. 1996 – Vol. 8 (8): 12; (34): 13. 1997 – Vol. 9 (16): 13. 1998. ISSN 1210-0021.
  3. ^ Vokno (24): 77–78. July 1992. – (25): 68–69. September 1992. ISSN 0862-7711.
  4. ^ "Pohled z onoho světa". Iniciály. Sešity nezavedené literatury. IV (32): 5–6. 1993. ISSN 0862-6324.
  5. ^ "Tři prózy". Revolver Revue (27): 60–68. November 1994. ISSN 1210-2881.
  6. ^ e.g. "Krámek s přáteli. Milenci. Prádlo". X-INK magazine (5): 30–31. June 1994. ISSN 1210-7484.
  7. ^ Hledání člověka a sny o milování se s ním (e-book), 2011: Kosmas.cz
  8. ^ dybbuk publishers Hledání člověka… (e-book), 2007 – Currently unavailable online (http://www.dybbuk.cz/download/e05-micka.pdf ), annotation – archived link
  9. ^ Finnish Society Bohemia (Helsinki) Archived 29 May 2012 at archive.today magazine Bohemia (contents) Archived 29 May 2012 at archive.today magazine Bohemia (contents) Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Dutch Magazine of Slavonic Literature TSL (Amsterdam) (in Dutch)contents TSL 29–60, TSL Index 1–50
  11. ^ Academia Publishing House Archived 23 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Academia Publishing House Prizes 2009 Archived 3 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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