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/31. October 2012/ - News

Among this year's State Prize Laureates is also Writer Ota Filip

On October 28, President Václav Klaus awarded the medal of merit to Ota Filip (born 1930) for his lifetime artistic achievement.

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/25. October 2012/ - News

State Prizes Announced. The Literature Prize Goes to Wernisch

The award ceremony took place at 7 pm yesterday, at the National Theatre. Its recorded broadcast was then featured on Czech TV, Channel 2.

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/18. October 2012/ - Awards, contests...

The 2012 Jaroslav Seifert Prize Goes to Vladimír Binar

The writer and literary scholar has been awarded for the short-story triptych Číňanova pěna (The Chinaman's Foam).

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/15. October 2012/ - News

The Next Wave Festival Prize for Petr Váša

The award for the publication of the year goes to a pioneer of physical poetry.

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/15. October 2012/ - News

The 2012 Franz Kafka Award Goes to Daniela Hodrová

This year's international literary prize goes to the Czech writer and literature scholar Daniela Hodrová.

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/5. October 2012/ - News

Take a Picture of Yourself While Reading and Make It Crazy!

SKIP in co-operation with the "Start Reading" team has announced a quick-fire two-day crazy competition of photographs from the Library Week.

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/2. October 2012/ - News

14th Edition of the Cross-Boundary Days of Czech and German Culture Looks Forward to Its Spectators

Between Oct 25 and Nov 19, Dresden, Ústí nad Labem and the Labe/Elbe Euroregion will see a whole lot of art and literature.

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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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/26. September 2012/ - News

John O'Brien on a Visit to the Czech Republic

The founder of the American Dalkey Archive Press has stopped on his tour through Europe to get in touch with Czech authors, publishers and journalists.

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/24. September 2012/ - News

Equus Press publishes translocal authors

Publishing house focused on experimenting Prague anglophone writers is run by a Czech, David Vichnar.

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International

/6. March 2013/ - News

Halík's work to be included in the Vatican library

Another honour and recognition for Czech theologian and philosopher Tomáš Halík.

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/24. February 2013/ - News

"Kudos" for Young EU Translators

The names have been publicised of 27 winners of the annual young EU translators competition called  "Juvenes Translatores," a young Czech woman among them.

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/15. February 2013/ - Grants, scholarships...

The US Embassy in the Czech Republic - Small Grants for 2013

The US embassy in the Czech Republic has announced the opening of the grant application processes for small grants for culture and non-state non-profit organisations (NNO).

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/11. February 2013/ - News

Budapest Forum on Trauma with Czech Participation

Hungary is organising a two-day Forum for young Central- and Eastern-European authors with the participation of Czech poets Adam Borzič and Jonáš Hájek

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/11. February 2013/ - Grants, scholarships...

Guidelines for the Literature Scholarship - Writer of the City of Graz

Call for applications for the "Writer of the City of Graz" scholarship for the period of September 2013 until August 31, 2014.

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/29. January 2013/ - Interview

Interview with John O'Brien of the Dalkey Archive Press

An interview with publisher John O'Brien about his visit to Prague last September, about Dalkey Archive's further plans in promoting Czech authors, and about the blessings and pitfalls of publishing innovative literature in translation.

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/24. January 2013/ - News

Jachym Topol and New Kafka Books Featured as some of Conservationalreading's Interesting New Books for 2013

The influential website mapping some of the 2013 forthcoming titles can be visited here.

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/23. January 2013/ - News

A New English Kafka Translation Reviewed in Three Percent

Chad W. Post reviews Mark Harman's translation (published by Schocken Books) of Kafka's Amerika: The Missing Person.

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/22. January 2013/ - News

Louis Armand's Novel Reviewed in the Iowa Review

Clair Obscur, a novel by the Prague-based Australian visual and literary artist, Louis Armand, has been favourably reviewed by Erik Martiny writing for the Iowa Review.

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/22. January 2013/ - News

Slate Book Review on a new Prague novel by Magnus Flyte

Magnus Flyte's City of Dark Magic reviewed by Glen Weldon for the Slate Book Review.

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