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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. The Czech Literature Portal is managed by the Arts Institute.

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New books

/2. February 2012/ - News

Vlado Oláh has died

Prominent Romani poet and translator Vlado Oláh has died at the age of 64 following a prolonged illness.

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/30. January 2012/ - News

VLAK has a new website

The international magazine based in Prague, which also publishes samples of works by Czech authors in an English translation, has revamped its website.

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/26. January 2012/ - Awards, contests...

Umberto Eco’s The Prague Cemetery hailed as 'Book of the Year' in Lidové noviny poll

What pertains original Czech works, these were mostly essay collections and Sylva Fischerová‘s short story book.

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/25. January 2012/ - News

Sinologue and Book Club winner Josef Hejzlar dies aged 84

Sinologue, art historian, translator and columnist Josef Hejzlar passed away at the age of 84 at a Prague hospital.

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/23. January 2012/ - News

Brno and Vienna honour the late Jiří Gruša

The mayor of Brno will bestow the 2011 City of Brno Award in International Cooperation to the recently deceased Jiří Gruša-in memoriam on 24 January.

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/18. January 2012/ - News

Listování relaunched

A project by Lukáš Hejlík and several other actors which promotes the works of Czech authors through staged readings has a new website

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/16. January 2012/ - News

New campaign encourages reading

The Association of Czech Booksellers and Publishers has recently completed the second part of a non-commercial campaign which aims to promote reading called Kniha – závislost na celý život 2 (Book – Hooked for Life 2).

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/12. January 2012/ - News

The Writers‘ Guild carries on

Following the resignation of the former chair, the poet Vladimír Křivánek, the opposite might have seemed to be the case. The filmmaker Tomáš Magnusek (1984, Náchod) has been appointed as the new chair of the guild.

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/10. January 2012/ - News

Prague  - The City of Literature unveils new website

A project that strives to include Prague as a city of literature in the UNESCO heritage list, will document the literary happenings in the city on its website...

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/9. January 2012/ - News

Writer Hana Adronikova dies

Czech writer Hana Andronikova passed away aged 44. Her last book Nebe nemá dno (Bottomless Heaven), published in 2010, depicted her fight with cancer which she tragically lost on 20 December 2011.

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/30. January 2012/ - News

Literature Across Frontiers celebrates tenth anniversary

The European platform for literary exchange Literature Across Frontiers completed a decade of existence last year and on that occasion, published a catalogue which presents its activities including those connected to the Czech Republic and Czech authors.

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/23. January 2012/ - Grants, scholarships...

The Paul Celan Fellowship 2012/2013 for translators

The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) has recently published the new call for application.

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/18. January 2012/ - News

Katharina Raabe on translating Czech writing into German

Katharina Raabe, the editor focusing on Central and Eastern European literature at Suhrkamp, writes about the rules of translating Central and Eastern European authors into German. You can read the article here (in German).

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/16. January 2012/ - News

Czech literature features in Literlab’s annual roundup of European prose

The current English edition of Vaculík’s The Guinea Pigs is featured by Literlab (Central European Literary Life) in their selection of the best European prose of the year alongside English translations of Ajvaz’s novels.

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/2. January 2012/ - Awards, contests...

Róbert Gál nominated for the Pushcart Prize

The New York magazine fwriction : review has recently nominated theCzech-Slovak author Róbert Gál for the prestigious American literary award Pushcart Prize.

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/2. January 2012/ - News

Tomáš Zmeškal in Hungarian, Bulgarian and Macedonian

The Hungarian publisher Typotex, Bulgarian publisher Balkani and the Macedonian publisher Ili; they all bought the translation rights for the award winning book "Love Letter in Cuneiform Script" (Milostný dopis klínovým písmem) by Tomáš Zmeškal.

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/19. December 2011/ - News

Czech authors present their aphorisms in Italy

Aforisticamente, a website run by aphorism author Fabrizio Carmagna, published the works of Czech author Jan Sobotka in Antonio Parente's Italian translation.

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/7. December 2011/ - News

Another excerpt from Róbert Gál's upcoming book revealed

The English-language experimental literature magazine Gobbet Mag has published the excerpt.

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/5. December 2011/ - News

Typlt in Italian

Hebenon, Rivista internazionale di letteratura, XVI, volume 4, issue 7–8, 2011, has recently featured the work of the Czech poet Jaromír Typlt in Antonio Parente's Italian translation.

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/1. December 2011/ - News

Masters thesis explores English translations of Czech authors

Even though Dana Soukupová’s masters thesis also covers the period preceding 1989 the main emphasis is placed on the subsequent years. In her research, she analyzed anthologies, translators, publishers and promotional activities.

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Příběh jednoho moderního ...

Autor: Jindřich TOMAN

Literary Science

(The Story of a Modern Project)

(more about the book)

Fyzické básnictví

Autor: Petr VÁŠA

Poetry

(Physical Poetry)

(more about the book)

Intermediální poetika pří...

Autor: Stanislava Fedrová, Alice Jedličková (eds.)

Literary Science

(Intermedia Poetics of Narrative)

(more about the book)

Poesie

Autor: František LISTOPAD

Poetry

(Poetry)

(more about the book)

Aby radost nezmizela

Autor: Různí autoři

Other

(To Keep the Joy Alive)

(more about the book)

Čerwuiš aneb Z Pacheka do...

Autor: Alberto Vojtěch Frič

Memoirs

(Cherwuish: From Pachek to Pachek Via Central Europe)

(more about the book)

Život v pravdě aneb Lhaní...

Autor: Jiří GRUŠA

Prose

(Life in Truth / Love Lies)

(more about the book)

Česká ruleta

Autor: Zdenek Červenka

Prose

(The Czech Roulette)

(more about the book)

Homosexualita v dějinách ...

Autor: Martin C. PUTNA

Essay

(Homosexuality in the History of Czech Culture)

(more about the book)

Živá voda

Autor: Karel Jaromír Erben, Jana Čeňková (ed.)

Other

(Sprightly Water)

(more about the book)

The Art of Translation

Autor: Jiří Levý

Literary Science

A timeless classic in Translation Studies

(more about the book)

The Tin Ring

Autor: Zdenka Fantlová

Memoirs

How I Cheated Death

(more about the book)

Para ver, cierra los ojos

Autor: Jan Švankmajer

(Close Your Eyes To See Me)

(more about the book)

Game’s Not Over – New Cze...

Autor: Kol. aut.

Drama

Recent plays by Czech authors

(more about the book)

Vomito negro

Autor: Pavel Hak

Prose

Fifth novel by the French writer of Czech origin

(more about the book)

The Guinea Pigs

Autor: Ludvík VACULÍK

Prose

Kača Poláčková’s English translation of the 1970 novel was recently published by Open Letter Books.

(more about the book)

Elegie / Elegien

Autor: Jiří Orten

Poetry

(Elegies)

(more about the book)

Das Schwere wird verschwi...

Autor: Hans Werner Kolben

(Das Schwere wird verschwinden)

(more about the book)

Allt detta tillhör mig

Autor: Petra HŮLOVÁ

Prose

(All This Belongs To Me)

(more about the book)

Gówno sie pali

Autor: Petr ŠABACH

Prose

(Shit is Burning)

(more about the book)