Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:08:28 +0200https://english.radio.cz/mike-baugh-and-magor-translating-untranslatable-8541526© 2026 Radio Prague International Last week, Prague hosted a conference devoted to Ivan Martin Jirous, one of the legends of the Czechoslovak underground of the 70s and 80s, who died in November 2011. The poet, better known as Magor, which means “loony” in English, was familiar to many as the artistic director of the Czech rock band The Plastic People of the Universe and as the wild man of the underground scene, but over the years his output as a poet has won ever growing acclaim. Much of his best poetry was written during the eight-and-a-half years he spent in communist jails, but astonishingly little of his output has been translated into English. In Czech Books, David Vaughan meets someone who has taken up the challenge of translating Magor’s work. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 https://english.radio.cz/mike-baugh-and-magor-translating-untranslatable-8541526 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9