Peter Kussi

Peter Kussi (died 2012) was a Czech scholar and translator.^[1] Born in Prague, he taught Czech language and Czech literature at Columbia University for many years. He is best known for his translation of the works of Milan Kundera, among them the novel Immortality which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He also edited an anthology of the works of Karel Čapek.

Selected translations[]

• Immortality by Milan Kundera
• Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
• The Farewell Party by Milan Kundera
• What Ownership's All About by Karel Poláček
• Miss Silver's Past by Josef Škvorecký
• The Tenor Saxophonist's Story by Josef Skvorecky
• The Questionnaire by Jiří Gruša

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