Short, David: - David Short (1943-) is a prize-winning translator from Czech and Slovak. He took a degree in Russian and French at the University of Birmingham, followed by a year of Slavonic Philology, after which, in 1966, he went to Prague to acquire Czech, remaining there until 1972. From 1973 to 2011 he taught Czech and Slovak at the University of London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. His translations include works by such major Czech writers as Bohumil Hrabal, Karel Čapek and Vítězslav Nezval, as well as by the author of the first Slovak novel, Jozef Ignác Bajza, in addition to academic works in the fields of art, literature, linguistics and semantics.