News
/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.
/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.
/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.
/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.
/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).
/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.
/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.
/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.“