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The multilingual Czech Literature Portal is intended mainly for the promotion of Czech literature abroad. The aim of the Portal is to provide information on contemporary Czech authors and their works (novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists including authors of literature for children). It is not the purpose of the Portal to stand in for the comprehensive range of academic sources available in this area. The service we seek to provide is that of a modern, centralized source which is regularly updated, comprising information on the literary life of the Czech Republic in its broadest sense. The information is intended to reach abroad: scholars (including students), translators, editors, literary centres, organizers of literary events (festivals, fairs, readings, exhibitions), journalists, compatriots and regular interested persons in the Czech literature.

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/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).

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/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?

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/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.

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/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.

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/22. February 2010/ - Invitation

How is Literature in East-Central Europe and Russia Faring after 1989?

PIDEC Annual Conference

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/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.

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/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.

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/8. March 2010/ - Awards, contests...

Czech poet Petr Král awarded by the French ambassador

Czech poet Petr Král has been made a commander in the Order of Arts and Letters bestowed by the French Ambassador to the Czech Republic, His Excellency Pierre Lévy.

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/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).

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/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.

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/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.

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/23. February 2010/ - Invitation

European Literature Wednesdays launch in Madrid

Czech writer Arnošt Lustig will read from his works at the event in May.

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/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).

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/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.

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Goethe v Čechách

Johannes Urzidil: Goethe v Čechách (Goethe in Bohemia)

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Milostný dopis klínovým písmem (audiokniha)

Tomáš Zmeškal: Milostný dopis klínovým písmem (audiobook) (Love Letter in Cuneiform Script)

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Karel Hynek Mácha

Jan Voborník: Karel Hynek Mácha

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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)

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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)

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Je večer, vypusťte čerta!

Martin Kubát: Je večer, vypusťte čerta! (It’s an Evening, Somebody Let the Devil Out!)

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Slovník Bohumila Hrabala

Slovník Bohumila Hrabala (Dictionary of Bohumil Hrabal)

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Working Knowledge

Petr Král: Working Knowledge

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Babia godzina

Viola Fischerová: Babia godzina

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Writers Under Siege

Jiří Holý: Writers Under Siege: Czech Literature Since 1945

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Manches wird geschehen

Petra Hůlová: Manches wird geschehen (Cirkus Les Mémoires)

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Wir müssen uns irgendwie ähnlich sein

Marketa Pilatova: Wir müssen uns irgendwie ähnlich sein

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Markéta Lazarová

Vladislav Vančura: Markéta Lazarová

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Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor

Neil Bermel: Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor. The Czech Orthography Wars

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