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Welcome

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.

News

New books

/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.

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/12. July 2010/ - Awards, contests...

Jiří Gruntorád receives 1st June Award

On Tuesday 1 June 2010, the mayor of Pilsen Pavel Rödl presented the 1st June Award to Jiří Gruntorád (*21 September 1952 in Prague) for his courageous distribution of banned literature (samizdat) in a totalitarian regime and for establishing the Libri Prohibiti library (Est. 1990), which preserves the largest collection of banned and exiled books, documents, magazines and other materials in the Czech Republic.

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/6. July 2010/ - Awards, contests...

Czech Literary Fund bestows annual awards

The Czech Literary Fund Foundation bestowed its annual awards on 3 June 2010. Vladimír Binar was awarded for the best original Czech literary work for his book Hlava žáru (The Head of Blaze).

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/30. June 2010/ - Awards, contests...

Havel receives award, does a reading

The former Czech president and playwright Václav Havel received this year’s Franz Kafka Award Award, which is bestowed by the Franz Kafka Society.

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/28. June 2010/ - News

Vladimír Justl dies aged 81

Vladimír Holan expert and editor Vladimír Justl passed away in Prague on 18 June 2010 aged 81.

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/15. June 2010/ - News

Online samizdat database

Call for donations

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/9. June 2010/ - News

EU Culture Programme supports literary translations

European Commission’s Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) announced the results for its 1.2.2. Strand regarding 2010 literary translations. Besides foreign authors, whose works will be translated into Czech, following publications will be translated into several foreign languages from Czech.

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/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.

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/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.

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/23. June 2010/ - News

Čapek in popular culture

A feature on the personality and ouvre of Karel Čapek in the cartoon Futurama, comic book Judge Dredd or the Star Trek series has appeared on Wikipedia. You can check it out here.

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/22. June 2010/ - Invitation

The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society

October 29-31, 2010 at the University of Chicago. More

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/17. June 2010/ - News

“Jurassic Park“ of horror

Die Presse published a review of this year’s German translation of the novel Chladnou zemí (Across a Cold Land, Torst, 2009) by Jáchym Topol (German version: Teufelswerkstatt). According to the reviewer Cornelius Hell the novel combines facts with grotesque hyperbole and satirically comments on the discrepancies and abuses of the politics of power.“

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/14. June 2010/ - Awards, contests...

Irena Hejdová scores award for screenplay adaptation of Petra Hůlová’s novel in Cannes

The Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award 2010 for the best script by an author from Central and Eastern Europe was bestowed on 19 May 2010 during the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

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/8. June 2010/ - News

Jiří Kratochvil in Austrian media

The Brno author has published a new book in Austria.

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O přibjehi

Markétá Hajská, Máša Bořkovcová, Vojtěch Mašek: O přibjehi. Ferko, Keva, Albína (comics)

(more about the book)

Medorek

Petr Placák: Medorek

(more about the book)

Hlava žáru

Hlava žáru (The Head of Blaze)

(more about the book)

Útržky ze zápisníku zemřelého přírodovědce

Útržky ze zápisníku zemřelého přírodovědce (Fragments from a Notebook of a Dead Scientist)

(more about the book)

Pohyby/ Movimientos

Svatava Urbanová: Pohyby/ Movimientos

(more about the book)

Básně sebrané

Básně sebrané (Collected Poems)

(more about the book)

Obyčejné lásky

Maxim Biller: Obyčejné lásky (Love Today. Stories)

(more about the book)

The Social Agent

Charles Laurence: The Social Agent: A True Intrigue of Sex, Lies, and Heartbreak Behind the Iron Curtain

(more about the book)

Het lijden van vorst Sternenhoch

Ladislav Klíma: Het lijden van vorst Sternenhoch (The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch)

(more about the book)

Das schwarze Häuschen

Stanislav Komárek: Das schwarze Häuschen (The Little Black House)

(more about the book)

Solitude, Vanity, Night

Kirsten Lodge (ed. + transl.): Solitude, Vanity, Night. An Anthology of Czech Decadent Poetry

(more about the book)

Creating the Nation

David L. Cooper: Creating the Nation. Identity and the Aesthetics in Early Nineteenth-century Russia and Bohemia

(more about the book)

Lettere a Olga

Václav Havel: Lettere a Olga (Letters to Olga)

(more about the book)

Zum 90. Geburtstag von Ludvík Kundera

Eduard Schreiber (ed.): Zum 90. Geburtstag von Ludvík Kundera: Dichter und Künstler gratulieren! (Artists and poets celebrate Ludvík Kundera's 90th birthday)

(more about the book)