Authors

2010 Jiří Orten Award winner Jan Těsnohlídek jr was born on 11 April 1987 in Havlíčkův Brod. He spent most of his life in Krucemburk, a town in the vicinity of Žďár nad Sázavou and started writing while studying at the K. V. Rais Grammar School in Hlinsko.

The writer Jindra Tichá was born on March 21st 1937 in Prague. She studied logic at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University and in 1967 she was awarded her PhD there. In 1969 she emigrated from the country. Initially she stayed in Exeter in England, and a year later she settled permanently in New Zealand.

Egon L. Tobiáš has graduated in stage design from the Drama Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague; spent one year on a post-graduate course in book illustration and printmaking at the School of Applied Arts. Has written 26 plays of which some have been performed in theatres in Prague and Brno.

Musician, singer, songwriter and prose writer Filip Topol was born on June 12th 1965 in Prague. After secondary school he studied the organ at the Conservatory for Workers. He worked as a programmer and since 1990 has devoted himself to music professionally. In 1979 he formed the rock band Psí vojáci (Dog Soldiers) in which he still plays today. His father is the dramatist and poet Josef Topol and his brother is the poet and writer Jáchym Topol. He lives in Prague.

Writer and journalist Jáchym Topol was born in Prague on 4 August 1962; his father is the poet and dramatist Josef Topol. Having completed his school-leaving examinations, he continued his studies briefly at a vocational school for social work, after which he worked in various labouring jobs and spent some time in receipt of disability benefit. From the early 1980s he was involved in literary activities of a samizdat and underground character: he was instrumental in the genesis of the Mozková mrtvice underground imprint, and was a co-founder and editor of the magazines Violit and Jednou nohou (soon re-named Revolver Revue, of which he was editor-in-chief from 1990 to 1993). In recent years Jáchym Topol has worked as a freelance. He has worked (most recently since 2005) as a reporter for Respekt, a weekly whose founding - as the samizdat publication Sport - he co-initiated. For a number of years he was a student of Ethnology at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. The prose writer and musician Filip Topol is his younger brother.

(b. 1960) is a literary theoretician, historian, critic, and editor, and university teacher.

The author and journalist Jan Trefulka was born on 15th May 1929 in Královo Pole (now a district of Brno). After graduating from school, he studied literary science and aesthetics at the Arts Faculty of Charles University in Prague, and after being thrown out of his studies for political reasons he worked as, among other things, a labourer and a tractor-driver; after his military service he returned for a time to his field of study.

The writer and folk singer Vlastimil Třešňák was born in Prague on 24th April 1950. He grew up in the district of Karlín, and after finishing his basic education he worked as a labourer on a construction site, as well as in a brewery, in a graveyard, in a warehouse, in film and theatre; during normalization he was first deprived of the possibility of performing in public and later, after signing Charter 77, forced to emigrate to Sweden.

The poet, translator from Polish and journalist Bogdan Trojak was born in 1975 in Český Těšín. He studied journalism at Palacký University in Olomouc. Since the mid-1990s he has been in charge of the magazine Weles, which he founded. He has worked with the editorial board of the Brno publishers Host, as the editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine Neon and for the internet magazine Lumír. In 1998 he was awarded the Jiří Orten Prize for his second collection Pan Twardowski (Mr Twardowski). He lives in Pařezovice in the Drahan Highlands.

Prose writer and curator Kateřina Tučková was born in 1980. A graduate in History of Art and Czech of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, Brno; currently a postgraduate student at the Institute of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague; author of many publications in the field of art history and a monograph on the writer Věra Sládková.

Jaromír Typlt (1973) comes from Nová Paka. He has graduated at Faculty of Arts, Karlova University, Prague. At present he applies himself to exhibitions of progressive art and photography. He has published poetry and prose and in the latest years he gave effect to the book-objects in conjunction with other allied artists.