News
New books
/9. March 2010/
- News
Lustig apologizes to Czech Social Democratic Party for his Hitler remark
“Why shouldn’t I do it? I would even meet Hitler because it might be interesting…” said the writer Arnošt Lustig in an interview with Hospodářské noviny, published on 24 February 2010, when answering the question about collaborating on a book about Jiří Paroubek entitled “Jaký opravdu je“ (As He Truly Is).
/7. March 2010/
- Invitation
Invitation for the night with Andersen
Dear Friends of Children’s Books,
has it ever occur to you what are books doing during a night after you finish reading the last goodnight fairytale and tuck yourself into a warm bed?
/3. March 2010/
- Awards, contests...
Expats.cz and Prague.tv Playwriting Contest
With the start of the new year we are proud to announce the three finalist plays for the 2010 Expats.cz and Prague.tv Playwriting Contest.
/25. February 2010/
- News
Every Czech Reads to Kids
The objective of this project is, through the use of educational, organisational, and promotional activities, to support the emotional health of children and youth.
/22. February 2010/
- Invitation
How is Literature in East-Central Europe and Russia Faring after 1989?
PIDEC Annual Conference
/17. February 2010/
- News
Pandora focuses on the 2010 World Expo in search for a better city and better life
The 19th issue of the Kulturně-literární revue Pandora (Cultural Literary Revue Pandora) hit the shelves at the end of 2009. The issue was put together in cooperation with the Commissioner General’s Office for the Czech participation at 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.
/15. February 2010/
- News
Radka Denemarková and the importance of digging up skulls
"The novel “Peníze od Hitlera” (Money from Hitler), is one of the best Czech books I’ve read for a long time, and luckily for English-speaking readers, it has just been published in an excellent English translation by Women’s Press in Toronto," says David Vaughan on Radio Prague.
/8. March 2010/
- Awards, contests...
Czech poet Petr Král awarded by the French ambassador
/4. March 2010/
- News
The writer Radka Denemarková in Die Welt on displacement
In an article published by the German newspaper Die Welt, the writer Radka Denemarková wrote about the burden of displacement of history in the Czech Republic (article published as Das seelenlose Land).
/4. March 2010/
- News
Colloquium concerning Bohumil Hrabal
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures together with the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago has organised a slavic colloquium Aesthetic Identities in Central Europe: The Construction of Self in Rilke, Gombrowicz and Hrabal.
/3. March 2010/
- News
Passengers of London Underground to encounter a poem by Czech poet Holub
Throughout last summer, passengers of London Underground were able to read a poem by Jaroslav Seifert, entitled “A sbohem” (And Now Goodbye), taken from the collection Morový sloup (The Plague Column). As of February 2010, verses by another Czech poet – Miroslav Holub – have descended into London Underground.
/23. February 2010/
- Invitation
European Literature Wednesdays launch in Madrid
Czech writer Arnošt Lustig will read from his works at the event in May.
/18. February 2010/
- News
Chinese have no word for Hrabal's "pábitel"
claims Wan Shirong in his article - which sums up the reception of Bohumil Hrabal's work in China. The article was published in The Czech Papers (České listy).
/15. February 2010/
- Interview
Interview with Jáchym Topol in Serbian
The 3rd Belgrade Poetry and Book Festival Trgni se! Poezija!, with an appearance by Jáchym Topol for the Czech Republic, was held between 28–31 May 2009.
Goethe v Čechách
Johannes Urzidil: Goethe v Čechách (Goethe in Bohemia)
Milostný dopis klínovým písmem (audiokniha)
Tomáš Zmeškal: Milostný dopis klínovým písmem (audiobook) (Love Letter in Cuneiform Script)
Karel Hynek Mácha
Jan Voborník: Karel Hynek Mácha
Žurnalistika v informační společnosti
Osvaldová, Barbara - Tejkalová, Alice (eds.): Žurnalistika v informační společnosti. Digitalizace a internetizace žurnalistiky (Journalism in information society. Digitalization and Internetization of Journalism)
Na cestách s Franzem Kafkou
Jan Jindra, Judita Matyášová: Na cestách s Franzem Kafkou. Slavná i neznámá místa v Čechách a Evropě (On the road with Franz Kafka)
Je večer, vypusťte čerta!
Martin Kubát: Je večer, vypusťte čerta! (It’s an Evening, Somebody Let the Devil Out!)
Slovník Bohumila Hrabala
Slovník Bohumila Hrabala (Dictionary of Bohumil Hrabal)
Working Knowledge
Petr Král: Working Knowledge
Babia godzina
Viola Fischerová: Babia godzina
Writers Under Siege
Jiří Holý: Writers Under Siege: Czech Literature Since 1945
Manches wird geschehen
Petra Hůlová: Manches wird geschehen (Cirkus Les Mémoires)
Wir müssen uns irgendwie ähnlich sein
Marketa Pilatova: Wir müssen uns irgendwie ähnlich sein
Markéta Lazarová
Vladislav Vančura: Markéta Lazarová
Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor
Neil Bermel: Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor. The Czech Orthography Wars