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/5. September 2010/
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Nominations for State Awards for Literature and Translation
The Czech Literature Portal can announce the list of 33 writers and 12 translators nominated for the 2010 state awards. The winners will be announced on 25 October 2010 in the Small Hall of the National Gallery in Prague.
/31. August 2010/
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Jáchym Topol extols our newsletter in Lidové noviny – Subscribe now!
The renowned Czech writer Jáchym Topol praised the free service offered by the Czech Literature Portal in the paper Lidové noviny on 17 July 2010. You can subscribe here to the newsletter, which covers all the latest happenings, new books and events and receive it once a week directly into your inbox.
/23. August 2010/
- Awards, contests...
2010 Josef Škvorecký Award nominations announced
The Josef Škvorecký Society has announced its 12 nominations for the fourth year of this prize. By mid-August, the jury will have chosen five finalists who will receive 10,000 CZK each, while the winner, whose name will be revealed at the end of September, will get 250,000 CZK.
/18. August 2010/
- Grants, scholarships...
Support for publishing Czech literature abroad
The Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic has announced a competitive funding call for publishing Czech literary works abroad.
/17. August 2010/
- News
Ludvík Kundera dies
In the morning of 17 August 2010, Ludvík Kundera, an eminent Czech writer and translator has passed away at the age of 90. Kundera, who's Milan Kundera's cousin, was a Jaroslav Seifert Award laureate and received state honours for outstanding service.
/9. August 2010/
- Interview
Hearth and Horizon: cultural identity in a globalised world.
Czech Books visits the home of the distinguished philosopher and author, Professor Erazim Kohák, to discuss his book, Hearth and Horizon.
/19. July 2010/
- Interview
It’s a portrait of a period
Interview with Louis Armand, the editor of the anthology The Return of Král Majáles.
/1. September 2010/
- News
Babel Web Anthology
Babelmatrix is a multidimensional-multilingual web anthology, which is displaying parallelly the original and the translated works.
/30. August 2010/
- News
Journey Across Europe with Hůlová
The website iliteratura.cz informed about a joint project called Journey Across Europe – Remeasuring Cultural Space, a venture of the publisher Větrné mlýny and several other Czech and foreign institutions featuring writers – including the Czech author Petra Hůlová – from four EU countries.
/25. August 2010/
- News
Lustig, Pilátová and Mališová in Buenos Aires
The writer Arnošt Lustig and the head of the Franz Kafka Centre Markéta Mališová appeared on the show Entrelinhas (Between the Lines) broadcast on the famous Brazilian cultural TV station TV Cultura. The footage was taken during the international book fair in Buenos Aires.
/23. August 2010/
- Invitation
Jana Beranová’s poetic project enters Rotterdam’s public space
Jana Beranová, a Dutch author of Czech origin, who’s also Rotterdam’s 2009-2010 city poet, will select one poem to be presented in various places across the city of Rotterdam each month over the course of the year 2010.
/13. July 2010/
- Invitation
Denemarková and Placák set to appear at the Berlin Literary Festival
The Czech writers Radka Denemarková and Petr Placák will participate at the 10th year of the International Literary Festival in Berlin scheduled for 15 – 26 September 2010.
/6. July 2010/
- News
Zmeškal speaks in London
From 17th to 20th June 2010, London played host to the World Literature Weekend festival, which was organized by the London Review Bookshop. Among the participating guests was the successful Czech novelist Tomáš Zmeškal who appeared there upon invitation by the local Czech Centre.
Sebedudy a jiné texty z let 1966–1987
Vratislav Brabenec: Sebedudy a jiné texty z let 1966–1987 ("Sebedudy" and Other Works 1966–1987 )
Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR
Ondřej Sládek, Kateřina Bláhová: Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR (Institute for Czech Literature at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Hlavně nepanikař! (CD)
Jan Kunze and the Hičhaikum project Hlavně nepanikař! (Don’t panic!)
České snění
Pavel Kosatík: České snění (Czech Dreaming)
Údolí neklidu
Údolí neklidu (The Valley of Unrest)
Hearth and Horizon
Erazim Kohák: Hearth and Horizon. Cultural Identity and Global Humanity in Czech Philosophy
O přibjehi
Markétá Hajská, Máša Bořkovcová, Vojtěch Mašek: O přibjehi. Ferko, Keva, Albína (comics)
Bel Canto
Milada Součková: Bel Canto
Czech Wake
Stanislav Moc: Czech Wake. Fall of the Patriots
Voyage vers le Nord
Karel Čapek: Voyage vers le Nord (Travels in the North)
Czech Mates
Matt Ogg: Czech Mates. Reflections of an Aussie student on exchange
Hexenjagd in der Tschechoslowakei
Markéta Špiritová: Hexenjagd in der Tschechoslowakei. Intellektuelle zwischen Prager Frühling und dem Ende des Kommunismus (Witch-Hunting in Czechoslovakia. Intellectuals between the Prague Spring and the End of the Communism)
Fuera de juego
Michal Viewegh: Fuera de juego (Dodgeball)
Prague with Fingers of Rain
Viítězslav Nezval: Prague with Fingers of Rain