His first novel Pavel & I was published in 2008 and translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Dutch, Danish, Italian and Czech.
[1] Both books gathered considerable critical acclaim and were widely reviewed by the Canadian, British and American press.
Born and raised in Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr Valley region of Germany to Czech expatriate parents,[2] Vyleta attended university in the United Kingdom, studying History as an undergraduate at Girton College, Cambridge before receiving his PhD [3] in the same subject from King's College, Cambridge.
[2] He has taught history, literature and creative writing at a variety of higher educational institutions in Canada, Germany, the United States and the UK.
His academic monograph Crime, Jews, and News, Vienna 1895–1914 (Berghahn 2007) discusses Austrian criminology and anti-Semitism.