Josef Rauvolf

Josef Rauvolf (born 2 January 1953) is a Czech translator, journalist and writer from Cheb. He has translated many Beat Generation novels into Czech, such as ''Junkie'', ''Naked Lunch'' and ''Queer'' by William S. Burroughs and ''Visions of Cody'', ''The Dharma Bums'' and ''Good Blonde & Others'' by Jack Kerouac. He also translated ''Uptight'' about The Velvet Underground. He was awarded the Josef Jungmann Award for his translation of ''Visions of Cody''. In addition to his translation work, he also wrote a book about Czech singer-songwriter Jaromír Nohavica. Provided by Wikipedia