Miroslav Holub

Miroslav Holub (13 September 1923 Plzeň - 14 July 1998) was a Czech poet and immunologist.

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Miroslav Holub's almost always unrhymed poetry lends itself easily to translation. It has been translated into more than 30 languages and is especially popular in the English-speaking world.

In addition to poetry, Holub wrote many short essays on various aspects of science, particularly biology and medicine (specifically immunology) and life. A collection of these, titled The Dimension of the Present Moment, is still in print.

• See Intensive Care: Selected and New Poems, ed. David Young (Oberlin College Press, 1996). ISBN 0-932440-76-2
• See Vanishing Lung Syndrome, trans. David Young and Dana Habova (Oberlin College Press, 1990). ISBN 0-932440-52-5