Michael Henry Heim teaches Russian and Central European literature in the Departments of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at UCLA. He translates from the Russian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, German, and French. His translations include Chekhov's plays and a collection of Chekhov's letters, contemporary Russian novelists (Vassily Aksyonov, Felix Roziner, Sasha Sokolov), three novels and a play by Milan Kundera, two novels and a collection of stories by Bohumil Hrabal, two novels by Danilo Kis, contemporary Hungarian novelists (Istvan Örkeny, Peter Esterhazy, György Konrad), a children's novel by Hans-Magnus Enzensberger, and Günter Grass's My Century. His most recent work is a translation of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice.