Translator Michael Henry Heim, 1943-2012 October 1, 2012: Translationista Susan Bernofsky pays tribute to translator and UCLA professor of Slavic languages and literatures Michael Henry Heim, b. 1943, who passed away over the weekend after a battle with brain cancer. Earlier in the day yesterday, Bernofsky mentioned Heim's translation of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice when writing about International [...] by Harriet Staff