Career
His most known translations are Discworld by Terry Pratchett and books about Conan the Barbarian by Robert East. Howard and his successors. Between 1975-1990 Kantůrek worked as a copy editor in the Artia publishing house. From 1990 to 1992 he was a director of marketing department in the Aventinum publishing house.
Since 1992 he has worked as a translator.
In 1984 he co-re-established a fanclub of Jules Verne, and started translating for its fanzins. He is a comics collector and, according to his own words, he can read English but not speak lieutenant
He has also performed as the Librarian in theatrical productions of Pratchett"s books He was awarded "Best Translator" by the Czechoslovakian Academy of science fiction, fantasy and horrors in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1999.
Discworld was awarded "Best Book Series" in the same years.
