Valentin Jirásek

 (born January 17, 1959) is a writer, novelist, teacher, biographer, translator and actor who currently lives in,. He has been described by as "a Czech man from, the former Czechoslovakian capital, who settled in  in the mid-1990s."

Biography
Born in, (now the ), in 1984 he left Czechoslovakia to go backpacking in. To pay for the costs of his backpacking journeys he worked as a engineer, translated Czech-language & Slovakian-language books into English for Australian publishers, and lent his voice to English-dubbed versions of Asian films.