# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-henry-heim
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:57:32.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-henry-heim"
name: "Michael Henry Heim"
slug: "michael-henry-heim"
description: "Michael Henry Heim was an American literary translator and scholar. He translated literature from eight languages, including works by Anton Chekhov, Milan Kundera, and Günter Grass. He received his doctorate in Slavic languages and literature from Harvard in 1971, and joined the faculty of UCLA the following year. In 2003, he and his wife used their life savings ($734,000) to establish the PEN Translation Fund."
tagline: "American scholar and literary translator (1943-2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Michael_Henry_Heim_%281943%E2%80%932012%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-01-21"
deathDate: "2012-09-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1030927835051546
  historical:           5.477250666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Хайм, Майкл Генри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump