Translator, publicist, editor, journalist. He was the director of the Polish Institute in Prague and Bratislava, and also director of the International Visegrad Fund. He translates Czech and Slovak literature, incl. works by Josef Škvorecký , Bohumil Hrabal, Milan Kundera and Vaclav Havel. In 1988, he published a volume of conversations with Czech writers Banici (Outlaws). In 2018, the ICC published a book by Jiří Gruša, Czech. User’s manual in his translation.