The Golden Age

About the Author and the Translator

MICHAL AJVAZ is a Czech novelist, essayist, poet, and translator. In 2005, he was awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Prize. He is a researcher at Prague’s Center for Theoretical Studies. In addition to fiction, he has published an essay on Derrida, a book-length meditation on Borges, and a philosophical study on the act of seeing.

ANDREW OAKLAND’s recent translations include Radka Denemarková’s Money from Hitler, Martin Reiner’s No Through Road, and the autobiography of architect Josef Hoffmann.