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Jim Naughton was born in 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied Czech and Russian at Cambridge University, gaining his doctorate in 1978. In addition to being the author of several Czech and Slovak language textbooks, the editor of Traveller´s Literary Companion to Eastern and Central Europe, his literary translations include Miroslav Holub´s feuilletons The Jingle-Bell Principle, Bohumil Hrabal´s Cutting It Short, The Little Town Where Time Stood Still, Total Fears, Letters to Dubenka, and the poems of Miloslav Topinka and Pavel Řezníček.

Jim Naughton lectures on Czech language and literature at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages in Oxford, where he lives.