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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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