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/16. April 2013/ - Interview

"The best writing the world will have in the coming generations will come from translocal writers..."

An interview with the Prague-based author Thor Garcia on the occasion of the recent publication of his new book of short stories.

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/11. April 2013/ - Interview

Interview with John a'Beckett, Managing Editor of New Europe Writers

An interview by Christian Mailoux, Co-editor of Červená Barva Press with John a’Beckett, Co-Founder of New Europe Writers.

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/1. October 2012/ - Interview

“Hide them in a cupboard, pull them out once a year, peruse them and put them back again?”

wonders about his books the writer, artist and musician Ivo Vodička.

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/1. June 2012/ - Interview

Interview with Martin Vopěnka

Novelist and publisher Martin Vopěnka talks books and science

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/26. May 2012/ - Interview

“In the Czech Republic there are double standards and a hypocritical moralism,”

says Czech-born writer Kateřina Janouch, who lives in Sweden and writes about love, relationships, sex and emigration.

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/10. April 2012/ - Interview

“The Leipzig Book Fair is filled with an exceptionally positive literary energy,”

said Jana Chalupová from the firm Svět knihy, which organised the Czech stall at the Leipzig Book Fair.

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/7. November 2011/ - Interview

Michal Viewegh: “There has been a major breakdown if not destruction of the basic foothold of democracy.”

In an interiew with Salon Práva (12. 10. 2011), the bestselling Czech author Michal Viewegh, whose books have been published in German, Slovenian and other translations, described the current mood in Czech society and politics.

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/11. August 2011/ - Interview

Bringing various cultures together is one of the greatest tasks of contemporary times, says Lucie Němečková.

Theatre dramaturge, translator, journalist and head of the festivals Tvůrčí Afrika aneb Všichni jsme Afričani a Nad Prahou půlměsíc Lucie Němečková collaborated on this year’s Book World fair focusing on the preparation and organization of its Arabic programme.

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/20. April 2011/ - Interview

Stephan Delbos: "There is something happening here with English language writers"

The American poet, teacher, editor and translator Stephan Delbos has lived in Prague for approximately six years. He has been a firm part of the local English-language literary scene both as a creator and a “curator” – publisher of the DIY poetry zine Rakish Angel and cultural editor at the Prague Post. We talked to the effervescent man of letters about Prague and poetry.

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International

/18. May 2010/ - Interview

I don’t even know how I lived then,

says Miloslava Slavíčková who has championed Czech literature in Sweden. Formerly a secretary, now a juror at the Jaroslav Seifert Literary Award, Slavíčková also collaborates with the Charter 77 Foundation, translates Czech books into Swedish and for a long time, was the only Czech teacher at Lund University in Sweden.

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/16. April 2010/ - Interview

Nobody has time in Prague

says Professor Kim Incheon in an interview with Michal Procházka.

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/12. April 2010/ - Interview

Let’s hope creative fervour doesn’t wane

Journalist Michal Procházka interviews the Dutch Bohemist Keese Mercks

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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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/5. February 2010/ - Interview

“Like night and day”

This is how the translator Tatjana Jamnik (1976) explains the differences between the Polish and Czech languages. On 24 November, 2009 she received an award for up-and-coming translators under 35 years of age (priznanje za mladega prevajalca) at the 25th Slovenian Book Fair in Ljublana for her translation of Ladislav Fuks’ The Cremator.

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/25. January 2010/ - Interview

Czech became my everyday language and German is my "artistic language"

Wieninternational spoke with author Michael Stavaric about his new book Terminifera, from which he is reading extracts in Vienna, Bratislava and Prague.

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/19. January 2010/ - Interview

"I was both surprised and delighted by the presidential post"

Interview with the writer Jiří Gruša who resigned from his post as President of the International PEN Club in autumn 2009.

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/3. January 2010/ - News, Interview

“It’s like the concentric circles that form when you throw a stone in the water…”

www.wieninternational.at met Christa Rothmeier to talk about the history of Czech literature, Austrian reading habits and international understanding.

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