EPISODE · Mar 22, 2017 · 33 MIN
StarShipSofa No 478 Eva Hauserova and Cyril Simsa
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Week 2 of Translations Month SpecialThis story was first written in Czech and has been translated into English.Main Fiction: "Between Us Girls" by Eva Hauserova, translated by Cyril SimsaEva Hauserová was born and brought up in Prague in what then still Communist Czechoslovakia. She studied Biology at Charles University and for a while worked in Genetic research, but soon realised her real talents lay elsewhere. She has been a full-time writer/editor/translator since 1990, working for a variety of magazines and publishers, including the pioneering Czech sf magazine Ikarie.Cyril Simsa was born and brought up in London, and for a while pretended to study zoology, though in actual fact he rarely left the obscurer regions of the university library and has rarely come closer to doing any real science than various holiday jobs at the Natural History Museum. He has been hovering on the fringes of the SF world for much longer than is really sensible, and has contributed reviews and articles to a wide...Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Week 2 of Translations Month SpecialThis story was first written in Czech and has been translated into English.Main Fiction: "Between Us Girls" by Eva Hauserova, translated by Cyril SimsaEva Hauserová was born and brought up in Prague in what then still Communist Czechoslovakia. She studied Biology at Charles University and for a while worked in Genetic research, but soon realised her real talents lay elsewhere. She has been a full-time writer/editor/translator since 1990, working for a variety of magazines and publishers, including the pioneering Czech sf magazine Ikarie.Cyril Simsa was born and brought up in London, and for a while pretended to study zoology, though in actual fact he rarely left the obscurer regions of the university library and has rarely come closer to doing any real science than various holiday jobs at the Natural History Museum. He has been hovering on the fringes of the SF world for much longer than is really sensible, and has contributed reviews and articles to a wide...Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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StarShipSofa No 478 Eva Hauserova and Cyril Simsa
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