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Jul 03, 1941 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 83 years old
Canadian translator, born 1941
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About Paul Wilson Translator
- Paul Robert Wilson (born 3 July 1941 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian translator and writer.
- In 1967 he moved to Czechoslovakia where he performed as a singer with The Plastic People of the Universe.
- Because he was a member of this group, he was expelled from Czechoslovakia in 1977.
- This band was banned in Czechoslovakia and their recordings could not be officially released.
- Wilson later founded a record label Boží Mlýn and released some of their recordings in Canada.Paul Wilson later went on to become one of the major translators into English of Václav Havel's work.
- In 2006 he was working on a new translation of The Memorandum for the Havel Festival, which also features two of his other translations. He also translated many books, such as I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal, from Czech to English, and more recently Mr.
- Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult (2015).
