The Modern Novel

Biography

Jan Balabán was born in Šumperk in 1961. His brother is the painter Daniel Balabán. The family moved to Ostrava when Balabán was one. He studied Czech and English at the Faculty of Philosophy of Palacký University in Olomouc. After graduating, he worked as a technical translator at the Vítkovice Ironworks and then as a freelance translator, translating the works of H P Lovecraft and Terry Eagleton, amongst others. His early work was short stories but he later wrote novels as well. He died in 2010, aged forty-nine.

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Jan Balabán
Jan Balabán
Jan Balabán
Jan Balabán: some kind of answer
Jan Balabán (in Czech)
His homepage (in Czech)