Heaven Has No Ground - Hardcover

Roman Kostovski studied Slavic languages at the College of William and Mary, University of Maryland, and Charles University in Prague. He taught Czech at George Washington University. He translates poetry and prose into English from Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, and Slovak. He has contributed his work to literary journals such as Poet Lore, Absinthe-New European Writings, and Watchword Press. His full-length translations include Arnost Lustig's Fire on Water (Northwestern University Press; 2006), The Ratcatcher (Plamen Press; 2014), Farewell and a Handkerchief by Vítězslav Nezval (Plamen Press; 2020), Steel Strings and Iron Curtains (Plamen Press; 2019), an album of songs by Karel Kryl and Jaromír Nohavica. He was awarded the National Endowments of the Arts Literary Translation Fellowship for translating Hana Andronikova's novel Heaven Has No Ground (Plamen Press; 2023). He founded Plamen Press, an independent non-profit publishing house that promotes literature from Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe translated into English.