Miroslav Holub

Background

Holub, Miroslav was born on September 13, 1923 in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. Son of Josef and Frantiska (Dvorakova) Holub.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, Charles University, Czechoslovakia, 1953. Doctor (honorary), Charles University, Czechoslovakia, 1985. Doctor of Science, Charles University, Czechoslovakia, 1991.

Career

Miroslav Holub"s work was heavily influenced by his experiences as an Immunologist, writing many poems using his scientific knowledge to poetic effect. His work is almost always unrhymed, so lends itself easily to translation. lieutenant has been translated into more than 30 languages and is especially popular in the English-speaking world.

Although one of the most internationally well-known Czechoslovakian poets, his reputation continues to languish at home.

Holub was born in Plzeň. His first book in Czechoslovakian was Denní služba (1958), which abandoned the somewhat Stalinist bent of poems earlier in the decade (published in magazines).

In English, he was first published in the Observer in 1962, and five years later a Selected Poems appeared in the Penguin Modern European Poets imprint, with an introduction by First Rate (at Lloyd's) Alvarez and translations by Ian Milner and George Theiner. Holub"s work was lauded by many, including Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, and his influence is visible in Hughes" collection Crow (1970).

In addition to poetry, Holub wrote many short essays on various aspects of science, particularly biology and medicine (specifically immunology) and life.

A collection of these, titled The Dimension of the Present Moment, is still in print. In the 1960s, he published two books of what he called "semi-reportage" about extended visits to the United States.

Achievements

• Miroslav Holub has been listed as a notable author, scientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Interferon, or On Theater

    (Miroslav Holub was hailed as a major figure in East Europ...)

  • Vanishing Lung Syndrome

    (Vanishing Lung Syndrome confirms Holub’s special status a...)

  • Vanishing Lung Syndrome

    (Vanishing Lung Syndrome confirms Holub’s special status a...)

  • Shedding Life: Disease, Politics, and Other Human Conditions by Holub, Miroslav (1997) Hardcover

    (Shedding Life: Disease, Politics, and Other Human Conditi...)

  • Shedding Life: Disease, Politics, and Other Human Conditions

    (From the microscopic to the mundane, Miroslav Holub's fir...)

  • Poems Before & After

    (A collection of poems from Czech poet Holub, half from be...)

  • Immunology Of Nude Mice

    (Immunology of Nude Mice presents a discussion of the natu...)

  • The Jingle Bell Principle

    (Better known as Czechoslovakia's finest poet, Miroslav Ho...)

  • Supposed to Fly: A Sequence from Pilsen, Czechoslovakia

    (Miroslav Holub is an internationally renowned immunologis...)

  • The Dimension of the Present Moment: Essays

    (A collection of essays from Miroslav Holub, the Czech imm...)

  • Shedding Life: Disease, Politics, and Other Human Conditions by Miroslav Holub (1997-11-03)

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • Poems Before and After: Collected English Translations

    (Book by Holub, Miroslav)

  • Sagittal section: Poems, new and selected (Field translation series)

    (Book by Holub, Miroslav)

  • (Vanishing Lung Syndrome: Poems) Author: Miroslav Holub published on (December, 1990)
  • Sagittal section: Poems, new and selected (Field translation series)
  • The Dimension of the Present Moment: Essays by Miroslav Holub (1991-03-03)
  • Immunology Of Nude Mice by Miroslav Holub (1989-04-30)
  • The Dimension of the Present Moment: Essays by Holub, Miroslav (1991) Paperback
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  • Supposed to Fly: A Sequence from Pilsen, Czechoslovakia by Miroslav Holub (1996) Paperback
  • The Jingle Bell Principle by Miroslav Holub (1993-01-13)
  • Poems Before & After by Miroslav Holub (2007-02-09)
  • Vanishing Lung Syndrome. SIGNED by author
  • Mechanisms of Antibody Formation: Proceedings of a Symposium held in Prague, May 27-31, 1959
  • The Jingle Bell Principle by Miroslav Holub (1993) Paperback

Membership

Member Union Czechoslovak Writers (central committee 1963-1969), Union Czech Science Workers (central committee 1969-1971), Bavarian Academy Arts, New York Academy of Sciences, International Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, European Culture Club, Pangea (president), British Poetry Society.

Interests

• Tennis, table-tennis, fencing.

Connections

Married 1st V^ra Koktova in 1948, 2nd Marta Svikruhova, 3rd Jitka Langrova in 1969.

Father:

Josef Holub

Mother:

Frantiska (Dvorakova) Holub

Spouse:

Jitka Langrová