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Michael Henry Heim, literary translator, dies at 69

Michael Henry Heim, a well-regarded scholar of Slavic

Photo credit: Handout | Michael Henry Heim, a well-regarded scholar of Slavic languages at UCLA known for his translations of works by Gunter Grass, Milan Kundera, Thomas Mann and Anton Chekhov, died Sept. 29, 2012. He was 69 Newsday's obituary for Michael Henry Heim

LOS ANGELES -- Michael Henry Heim, an internationally known translator who created highly praised English versions of such masterpieces as "Death in Venice" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," has died. He was 69.

Heim who taught Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, Los Angeles for 40 years, died Saturday at his West Los Angeles home from complications of melanoma,...

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