Authors
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Petr Kolečko
Playwright and screenwriter for television projects. He was born in Broumov on 28 March 1984, he studied directing and screenwriting at Prague’s...
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Ivan Klíma
One of the most frequently translated Czech authors and recipient of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize (2002), the Magnesia Litera (2010), the...
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Karel Šiktanc
Poet, translator, author of children’s books, lyricist, journalist. Twice winner of the Jaroslav Seifert Award (1989, 2011), the State Prize for Literature...
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Jaroslav Kovanda
Poet, novelist, journalist, painter, sculptor and editor, long-standing editor-in-chief of the poetry magazine Psí víno (Dog Wine). He was nominated for the...
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Jakub Řehák
Poet, essayist. Winner of the Magnesia Litera for poetry (2013). His work was featured in an Italian anthology of contemporary new Czech...
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      Krchovsky
      Jiří H. Krchovský
      One of the most distinctive (and youngest) poets to come from the underground of the 1980s and founder of the band Krch-off....
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      Emil Hakl
      Writer, recipient of several literary awards including two Magnesia Literas and the Josef Škvorecký Award. One of our most appreciated and widely...
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      Petra Soukupová
      Prose writer, screenwriter, author of books for adults and children. Winner of the Jiří Orten Award (2008) and the Magnesia Litera for...
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      Pavel Zajíček
      Poet, lyricist, artist. A leading figure in the Czech underground movement. In 2014 he was awarded the Revolver Revue Prize. His books...
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      Markéta Pilátová
      Writer, journalist, author of children’s books, translator and Hispanic expert, she has twice been nominated for the Josef Škvorecký Award and for...
      Martin Ryšavý
      Martin Ryšavý
      Novelist, screenwriter, director of documentary films. Winner of the Josef Škvorecký Award (2011, in 2009 he was “only” nominated), two Magnesia Literas...
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      Petr Stančík
      Poet, prose writer, author of children’s books, playwright, copywriter and essayist also writing under the name of Petr Odillo Stradický ze Strdic,...
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      Eva Hauserová
      Writer, journalist, translator, screenwriter and blogger. She alternates between sci-fi literature and gender journalism and is one of the most important...
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      Tomáš Zmeškal
      Novelist, translator and interpreter of Czech-Congolese origin who was educated at King’s College, London. Zmeškal was awarded the Josef Škvorecký Award (2009)...
      Kratochvil
      Jiří Kratochvil
      Novelist, essayist, playwright. He is the recipient of many literary awards including the Tom Stoppard Prize (1991), the Egon Hostovský Award (1996),...
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      Ludvík Vaculík
      Ludvík Vaculík (July 23, 1926–June 6, 2015) was a writer and journalist born in Brumov near Valašské Klobouky. He attended a two-year...
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      Jiří Dynka
      Poet, born on 4 October 1959 in Zlín. He is one of the few contemporary Czech poets who has remained within his...
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      Jan Němec
      Poet and prose writer, recipient of the European Union Prize for Literature (2014) and the Czech Book Award (2014), he was also...
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      Ivan Matoušek
      Artist, poet and novelist, one of the most distinctive Czech authors of recent years. He was the recipient of the Revolver revue...
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      Iva Procházková
      A writer predominantly of children’s books, she also writes plays and fiction for adults. She publishes in Czech and in German, and...
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      Lenka Lagronová
      Dramatist, author of radio plays, recipient of the Alfréd Radok Award (1998). Her plays have been performed at home and abroad and...
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      Jaroslav Rudiš
      Novelist, author of stage and radio plays, author of scripts for comic books. Winner of the Jiří Orten Award (2002), the Alfréd...
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      Jaroslav Pížl
      Poet, prose writer, musician, lyricist and musician. Winner of the Jiří Orten Award (1992). He was born in Prague on 5 November...
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      Pavel Kolmačka
      Pavel Kolmačka (1962) is a poet, writer and translator. After graduating from the Technical University he worked as an assistant at the...
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      Milan Exner
      Literary academic, aesthetician, educationalist, poet and novelist. Born on 9 September 1950.
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      Michal Viewegh
      Novelist, one of the best-selling and most widely read authors today. His work has been translated into 23 languages including English, German...
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      Michal Šanda
      Prose writer, experimenter, poet, playwright, publishing editor. Winner of the Golden Pen of Ondřej Pavelka prize (2013) conferred by theatre professionals connected...
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      Patrik Ouředník
      Novelist, translator and essayist, linguist, author of books for children and adults. He is the recipient of the State Prize for Literature...
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      Daniela Hodrová
      Literary theorist, poet and prose writer, translator. Winner of the State Award for Literature (2011), Franz Kafka Prize (2012) and Magnesia Litera...
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      Pavel Šrut
      Pavel Šrut (1940-2018), poet, author of song lyrics, children’s stories, fiction and feuilletons, also a translator and cultural editor. He was included...
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      Magdalena Wagnerová
      Writer and publishing editor, scriptwriter, author of radio plays and texts for children. Her books have been published in English, French, German...
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      Lukáš Marvan
      Poet, novelist, editor, dramaturge, spokesperson for the fire service. He has lived in Sri Lanka and his poems have been translated into...
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      Martin Reiner
      Poet, novelist, publisher, organiser of cultural events. Recipient of the Magnesia litera (2014) and the Josef Škvorecký Award (2014). His books have...
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      Martin C. Putna
      Editor, literary historian, comparatist, critic, translator, teacher, author of works on history and religion. He is the recipient of the Tom Stoppard...
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      Petr Šabach
      Petr Šabach (1951-2017) was a prose writer and journalist. Many of his books have been turned into successful films. His books have...
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      Petr Nikl
      Artist, writer, illustrator, musician and dramatist. Nikl’s father was a painter and his mother was a doll designer. He studied at the...
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      Petra Hůlová
      Petra Hůlová (1979) is a fiction writer and the recipient of several literary awards, including Czechia’s highest literary recognitions – the Magnesia...
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      David Zábranský
      Novelist and author of radio plays. Winner of the Magnesia Litera (2007) for discovery of the year, also nominated for the Josef...
Books
Nejlepší české básně 2010
Miloslav TOPINKA
While the first installment of the anthology Nejlepší české básně (Best Czech Poems) strived to point out that noteworthy Czech poetry continues...
New Czech Fiction 2010/2011
Radim Kopáč
New Czech Fiction 2010/2011 showcases outstanding Czech literature produced in the past two years. It features all genres, not only prose –...
The Game for Real
Richard Weiner
Called “The Man of Pain” by the sci-fi author Karel Čapek (who popularized the word “robot”), Richard Weiner is one of European...
Nikam
Ivan Wernisch
Wernisch, an important figure on the chessboard of Czech poetry of the last half-century and whose background lies in the traditions of...
De werkplaats van de duivel
Jáchym Topol
The exploration of history’s trail, same as in Topol’s previous works, is intertwined with a surreal-carnival plot. The laconically narrated story is...
Maybe We're Leaving
Jan Balabán
With psychological insight that rivals Dostoevsky’s great novels, the twenty-one linked narratives in this collection present us with everyday people, with everyday...
Medorek
Petr Placák
Placák’s ambition to fathom the reality of the totalitarian society in the novel Medorek – as experienced through the eyes of the book‘s...
Reading Bohemia
Jiří Trávníček
The book is based on a presentation of the main data from three statistical representative readership surveys conducted by the Institute of...
Moje šílené století II.
Ivan Klíma
In the second volume of Ivan Klíma’s memoirs we are transposed into the “sweltering summer”of 1967. The first part Moje šílené století...
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      Pianka od Chińczyka
      Vladimír Binar
      A single-volume edition of three prose works – Mesíc ve žních (The Harvest Month), Dimanche à Paris and Cínanova pena (The Chinese...
      Naučná stezka Olšanské hřbitovy
      Jiří Dynka
      Dynka’s original contributions to Czech poetry display several facets. From visual games under the influence of pop art, the author worked his...
      Málo černý Varlata
      Iva Pekárková
      In her first “blog book” (Jaxi taksikařím, 2009), Iva Pekárková observed London from the steering wheel of a cab. This time, she...
      Návrat Krále Šumavy 2: Agent-chodec
      Vojtěch Mašek
      The second part in a thrilling, dramatic series about one of the most remarkable figures from Cold War Czechoslovakia. A continuation of...
      New Czech Comics (2000–2012)
      Radim Kopáč
      The fourth title in the series founded in 2010 and published by Czech Ministry of Education for the promotion of Czech culture...
      Krys Veliký
      Magdalena Wagnerová
      Once upon a time, somewhere on a grainary near Mělník, a slightly peculiar contingent of suspicious-looking rats from Prague turns up. They...
      Sparire
      Petra Soukupová
      Petra Soukupová’s second book, which won the 2010 Magnesia Litera award for book of the year. In this collection of three long...
      A prágai Gólem
      Marek Toman
      A legend from the late 16th century tells of Rabbi Löw, who shaped the Golem out of clay and animated him. This...
      Shakespearova Anglie. Portrét doby
      Martin Hilský
      This book is an attempt at a holistic view of Shakespeare’s time. It is divided into four parts – People and Society,...
      Totální nasazení
      Ondřej Nezbeda
      The true stories of three women, of different ages and nationalities, whose lives were affected by work camps during World War II....
      Penis pravdy 2012
      Pavel Göbl
      New book by the winner of the 2009 Magnesia Litera Discovery of the Year award. Penis pravdy (Penis of Wisdom) is a...
      Den
      Petr Král
      New Czech Drama (2000-2013)
      Radim Kopáč
      After Czech literature in translation (2010, 2011), literature for children and young people (2012), comics (2012) and annuals cataloging new Czech fiction...
      Rozhovory 1964–2009
      Vladimír Körner
      Básně sebrané
      Jiří H. Krchovský
      The poems of J. H. Krchovský, one of the most significant writers to emerge from the Prague underground, have achieved cult status...
      Treffpunkt Pinguinhaus
      Emil Hakl
      In Europe, taking a walk is a cultural phenomenon having an almost mystical import. It connects physical activity with meditation, inner silence...
      Zvuky probouzení
      Petr Třešňák
      An in-depth examination of life with a child with a severe disability from a parental, psychological and spiritual perspective. This book by...
      Hitman
      Miroslav Žamboch
      S brokovnicí pod kabátem
      Ivan Wernisch
      After his magnum opus Nikam (2010), this much-read and appreciated poet has published a collection whose name suggests many things. Stories sold,...
      Gumový betlém
      Jaroslav Kovanda
      Family chronicles, which simultaneously work as a popular alternative to historical compendia because the horizontal of great history intersects in time with...
      Megapolis
      Miroslav Žamboch
      Život po Kafkovi
      Magdaléna Platzová
      A novel inspired by the fate of Kafka’s fiancée Felice Bauer Who was Felice, a woman known to generations of Kafka fans...
      Čas žít, čas zabíjet
      Miroslav Žamboch
      Die Teufelswerkstatt
      Jáchym Topol
      From the English edition: The devil had his workshop in Belarus. That’s where the deepest graves are. But no one knows about...
      Gargling with Tar
      Jáchym Topol
      Czechoslovakia, 1968. The Soviet troops have just invaded the country and, for the young orphan Ilya, life is suddenly turned on its...
      Eltűnés
      Petra Soukupová
      A young author describes the trials, burdens and dramas of family life in this bestselling 2010 Magnesia Litera book of the year....
      Víla Vivivíla a piráti jižního moře
      Markéta Pilátová
      We have already once before set out on an adventuresome trip with the Eerie Fairy from her house to Břevnov where she...
      Nesmír
      Karel Šiktanc
      Nesmír – fifteen new texts from Karel Šiktanc (1928), classic writer of Czech poetry and winner of the Jaroslav Seifert Prize for...
      Rybí hry
      Eva Hauserová
      Zvonek a pak chorál
      Iva Pekárková
      Adrenalin
      Jaroslav Pížl
      Dvojité dno
      Jiří H. Krchovský
      The poet J. H. Krchovský (1960) came out of the Czechoslovak underground culture and has close ties to music (he performs in...
      Zeptej se táty
      Jan Balabán
      This novelist and translator is one of the best and most popular writers of the past two decades. His most highly acclaimed...
      Obrazy z kulturních dějin americké religiozity
      Martin C. Putna
      Forms of religion in American society can be fascinating thanks to their variety, even disarray. The author of this book, who has...
      Strážci občanského dobra
      Petra Hůlová
      Petra Hůlová unveils her sixth novel to date, and once again, she has a few surprises up her sleeve. This time, she...
      Koniec punku w Helsinkach
      Jaroslav Rudiš
      This novel portrays the last punk generation and its legacy after twenty years. Ole doesn’t expect much from life anymore. He is...
      Il cielo sotto Berlino
      Jaroslav Rudiš
      First published in 2002, Jaroslav Rudiš’ debut book Nebe pod Berlínem (The Sky under Berlin) is a very refreshing piece of literature...
      The Fifth Dimension
      Martin Vopěnka
      A contemporary classic from the Czech Republic. To support his family, a man submits himself to a solo science experiment in the...
      Vyvolávání
      Daniela Hodrová
      Laureate of the State Prize for Literature in 2011, Daniela Hodrová (1946) is a literary scholar whose theoretical research prepares the ground...
      Utopus to byl, kdo učinil mě ostrovem
      Patrik Ouředník
      Halfway between an author essay and an expert study, Ouředník’s new book draws equally from literature, history, philosophy and anthropology. Once again,...
      Štefánik
      Gabriela Kyselová
      A comics portrait of one of the founders of Czechoslovakia favouring playfulness and complexity over the trivialization of textbooks. The factually based...
      Virgonaut
      Petr Stančík
      The Golden Age
      Michal Ajvaz
      The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on...
      Nad piękną modrą Dřevnicą
      Antonín Bajaja
      Burying the Season is an affectionate, multi-layered account of small town life in central Europe beginning in the early 1930s and ending...
      Už ráno začal večírek
      Pavel Šrut
      Pavel Šrut’s lyrics have been among the best in Czech sung poetry since the early 1980s. The first one to sing his...
      The Seven Churches
      Miloš Urban
      First published in 1999, translated into six languages and a runaway best-seller in Spain, Seven Churches is one of the most haunting...
      Femme fatale
      Jiří Kratochvil
      A young writer – fatal, damned, bewitched; sexual escapades, cruel love affairs, pain and torment culminating in a lover’s suicide. These are...
      Pasáž
      Sylva Fischerová
      Seven stories interconnected by both the writer’s life and her work. Sylva Fischerová (1963) – a daughter of the philosopher and sociologist,...
      Pravidla směšného chování
      Emil Hakl
      Emil Hakl’s new book freely draws on the author’s most successful work to date – O rodičích a detech (Of Kids &...
      Роман для женщин
      Michal Viewegh
      Here the female narrator, a twenty-year-old editor who works on a fictive woman’s weekly, candidly assesses her own love affairs. The story...
      Cтена
      Petr Sís
      Peter Sís draws us into the world that shaped him – Czechoslovakia during the Cold War. Behind the Iron Curtain were many...
      Por el país del frío
      Jáchym Topol
      As in Topol’s previous work, here the quest for traces of history again becomes enmeshed in a surreal carnivalesque plot. The laconically...
      Célébration
      Ivan Matoušek
      The eminent Czech writer Ivan Matoušek (Revolver Revue Award winner) returns with a new work eight years after his legendary novel Spas...
      Burying the Season
      Antonín Bajaja
      Burying the Season is an affectionate, multi-layered account of small town life in central Europe beginning in the early 1930s and ending...
      Listy v lahvích
      Stanislav Komárek
      Одичание
      Antonín Bajaja
      Growing Wild has an elaborate composition, which is used to great effect in the build-up of excitement that reaches its climax in...
      Život je nádherný
      Tereza Boučková
      In her newest autobiographical novel, the author describes her life from Christmas of 2010 to 23 December 2011, frankly and openly discussing...
      Biomanželka
      Michal Viewegh
      “I’ve been convinced that Mojm ír’s marriage to Hedvika resembled a softened modern-day version of the age-old story about Modrovous who would...
      Moře
      Pavel Kolmačka
      De kever
      Michal Ajvaz
      Originally published in Czech in 1991 (part of the book Návrat starého varana)....
      En mitad de la noche un canto
      Jiří Kratochvil
      At the core of this novel is the autobiographical experience of a child of a post-1948 emigrant who grows up in the...
      Ekomąż
      Michal Viewegh
      Eco-Husband is a loose sequel to Viewegh’s 2010 bestseller Eco-Wife, which sold over 100,000 copies and was successfully adapted for the stage....
      Die weißen Elefanten
      Irena Dousková
      This shorter work of prose is set in the not-so-distant past in a village close to the town of Beroun in Bohemia....
      Of Kids & Parents
      Emil Hakl
      In Europe, taking a walk is a cultural phenomenon having an almost mystical import. It connects physical activity with meditation, inner silence...
      Obrazy z kulturních dějin Střední Evropy
      Martin C. Putna
      The culmination of a three-part series of studies by the well-known literary historian in the form of cultural-history “images”. Following on from...
      Das Versprechen des Architekten
      Jiří Kratochvil
      The novel The Promise (Requiem for the Fifties) / Slib (rekviem na padesátá léta) is an intentional allusion to Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s novella...
      Chodit po provaze je snadné
      Ivan Wernisch
      Anthology of poems and minor prose by the classic of Czech poetry, the winner of the State Prize for Literature in 2012....
      Zabrisky, ta druhá spermie
      Bohuslav Vaněk-Úvalský
      Gang zjizvených
      Iva Pekárková
      Medorek
      Petr Placák
      Placák’s ambition to fathom the reality of the totalitarian society in the novel Medorek – as experienced through the eyes of the book‘s...
      Medorek
      Petr Placák
      Placák’s ambition to fathom the reality of the totalitarian society in the novel Medorek – as experienced through the eyes of the book‘s...
      Fuera de juego
      Michal Viewegh
      This book follows the varied lives of several high-school classmates, from their teenage growing pains to their early forties. Connoisseurs of the...
      Wir müssen uns irgendwie ähnlich sein
      Markéta Pilátová
      Two young girls and two elderly women find themselves in a situation, in which they make a new start – in Brazil...
      Obyčejná šílenství
      Petr Zelenka
      An omnibus edition of six theatre plays of the most successful Czech playwright of the twenty-first century. He graduated in dramaturgy and...
      Vrač
      Martin Ryšavý
      The author of the novel Cesty na Sibiř (Journeys to Siberia), awarded with a Magnesia Litera in 2009, delivers his new book....
      Mein tolles Leben mit Hitler, Stalin
      Pavel Kohout
      The German translation of the memoir written by Czech playwright and writer Pavel Kohout entitled To byl můj život?? (That Was My...
      Vita Nuova
      Bohumil Hrabal
      Vita Nuova is the second in a trilogy of memoirs written from the perspective of Bohumil Hrabal’s wife, Eliska, about their life...
      En Annan Stad
      Michal Ajvaz
      This distinctive novel is set in various shadowy settings about Prague, such as the belfry of St. Nicholas’s church, Petřín hill, a...
      Přeshádky
      Petr Nikl
      Lingvistické pohádky (Linguistic Stories, 2006, Golden Ribbon IBBY, Czech Republic’s 2nd Most Beautiful Book), Záhádky (2007, Magnesia Litera – Book of the...
      The Swing in the Middle of Chaos
      Sylva Fischerová
      Sylva Fischerová is one of the most formidable Czech poets of her generation. A distinguished classicist who teaches at Charles University in...
      Mord in der Josefstadt
      Miloš Urban
      English: Prague at the end of the nineteenth century. Bohemia is part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and there is social and political...
      El diario perdido del profesor de Essex
      Olga Černá
      Just as Charles Darwin, sailing on the Pacific Ocean onboard the Beagle, was not the only person to discover the laws of...
      Nejlepší české básně 2013
      Ivan Wernisch
      In 1988 American poet and critic David Lehman came up with the idea of publishing annual “best poetry” collections. The success that...
      Aarons Sprung
      Magdaléna Platzová
      From the English edition: In a Europe torn by war and revolution, Berta Altmann comes of age as a gifted artist and...
      Haus des Barfüßigen
      Patrik Ouředník
      Endstation Taiga
      Petra Hůlová
      This fifth novel by Petra Hůlová is full of adventure and suspense. Different periods in time, different cultures, countries and ethics are...
      Ztracený deník profesora z Essexu
      Olga Černá
      Just as Charles Darwin, sailing on the Pacific Ocean onboard the Beagle, was not the only person to discover the laws of...
      Case Closed
      Patrik Ouředník
      Centered on an elderly retiree and his intellectual adversary, the shrewd Inspector Lebeda, Case Closed is filled with all the expected elements...
      Das schwarze Häuschen
      Stanislav Komárek
      Although the residents of the Little Black House, which was long ago purchased by the tailor Vodrážka, live in the dramatically changing...
      Boží a jiná muka - Fejetony o lásce ke kolu
      Tereza Boučková
      Due to the transformation of newspapers the art of the “feuilleton”, or short literary essay, is slowly disappearing, but through fifty contributions...
      Deník Avatára
      Lukáš Marvan
      Oniegin był Ruskiem
      Irena Dousková
      Mesón El Centro
      Eugen Brikcius
      Gjennom et kaldt land
      Jáchym Topol
      The exploration of history’s trail, same as in Topol’s previous works, is intertwined with a surreal-carnival plot. The laconically narrated story is...
      Krajina nedělní
      Magdalena Wagnerová
      Eddig megvolnánk
      Jan Novák
      The novel Zatím dobrý (So Far, So Good) bears the subtitle “The Mašíns and the Greatest Story of the Cold War”, even...
      Kus umělce
      David Zábranský
      Sindibádův dům
      Michal Ajvaz
      The subtitle of the book is: A Correspondence About Episodic Situations And Scenes, Moments, Memories, Beginnings, Means and Ends; Seaside Cliffs, Waves...
      Mladost-radost
      Jiří H. Krchovský
      Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch
      Kateřina Tučková
      On the night of 30/31 May 1945, Gerta Schnirch, the mother of a baby daughter, is “displaced” from Brno with the rest...
      Konec punku v Helsinkách
      Jaroslav Rudiš
      This novel portrays the last punk generation and its legacy after twenty years. Ole doesn’t expect much from life anymore. He is...
      Föräldrar och barn
      Emil Hakl
      The title Of Kids & Parents describes the whole book quite well. Nothing better than a conversation between a seventy-two year old...
      Toník a jeskyně snů
      Magdaléna Platzová
      A spellbinding story about a boy from Prague who spends his holidays with his uncle, a gardener, at The Versailles Park under...
      Himmel under Berlin
      Jaroslav Rudiš
      First published in 2002, Jaroslav Rudiš’ debut book Nebe pod Berlínem (The Sky under Berlin) is a very refreshing piece of literature...
      La hora estelar de los asesinos
      Pavel Kohout
      Set in the German-occupied city of Prague during the twilight of World War II, The Widow Killer is an extraordinary achievement by...
      Divňáci z Ňjújorku
      Petr Nikl
      “In the years of 2010 and 2011 I became a man-hunter. On a Xootr scooter I cruised the whole of Manhattan, spying...
      New Czech Fiction 2011/2012
      Radim Kopáč
      This volume follows on from the successful title New Czech Fiction 2010/2011 . The present publication also gives brief descriptions of fifty...
      Román pro muže
      Michal Viewegh
      Three middle-aged siblings (a female TV reporter, a local newspaper journalist, and a judge) and a young stripper on a ski holiday...
      … a to je blues
      Michal Šanda
      Biomanžel
      Michal Viewegh
      Eco-Husband is a loose sequel to Viewegh’s 2010 bestseller Eco-Wife, which sold over 100,000 copies and was successfully adapted for the stage....
Monthly features
Comics for Children and Young Adults Post-2000 (Part Two: 2010–2019) | 13. 1. 2020
In recent months and years, comics for children and young adults have been experiencing one of their more buoyant and dynamic periods....
Czech Poetry 2010–2020 | 21. 12. 2021
To provide an overview of Czech poetry from 2010 to 2020 in the usual way – i.e. by searching for key events,...
Czech Poetry in English Translation (1990 – 2020) | 24. 3. 2021
In the last decade, 13 books of Czech poetry have appeared in English translation. This number hasn’t significantly changed in comparison to...
Czech prose since 2000 | 1. 9. 2015
Post-1989 changes The November 1989 revolution was a turning point for all Czechoslovaks, with a profound effect on the form and reception...
Comics for Children and Young Adults Post-2000 (Part One: 2000–2009) | 9. 10. 2019
Like every good story with a happy ending, this one about the resurrection, rebirth or reawakening of Czech comics after 2000 keeps...
Contemporary Czech Poetry | 13. 2. 2017
This summary is neither an in-depth analysis nor an exhaustive list of the major contemporary poetics, trends, poets, anthologies and poems aimed...
The 1940s and 1950s in Contemporary Czech Prose | 7. 11. 2016
The great heroic themes which emerge from key moments in a nation’s history have been a subject for literary art since time...
Contemporary Anglophone Literature in the Czech Republic | 7. 5. 2019
A look at English-language literature in the Czech Republic in the last decade The term “anglophone” in the title encompasses what used...
Twenty-Seven Dwarves Who Share a Single House | 10. 11. 2022
Europe continues to schlep all its unresolved and suppressed traumas from the centuries gone by. For many years the only thing that...
A hundred years of Czech literature in Israel | 1. 10. 2015
It’s hard to provide an account of the literary connections between any two countries during the 20th and the early 21st century...
Modern Czech Literature Written by Women | 3. 8. 2016
The days when men dominated the literary limelight are long gone. Gone too are the days when to most people the idea...
Resources
Publishers of Czech literature in translation
Afera (Poland) A one-woman project run by Julie Różewicz, publisher, translator and literary promoter all in one. She focuses on contemporary Czech...
Czech Republic – some key background facts
With its ten and a half million inhabitants , the Czech Republic is a medium-sized Central European state. After the great political...
Digital reading and the internet
The i nternet has shown itself to be a place to read short, service-related texts, whereas the number of those who read...
Czech prose since 1989
Post-1989 changes The November 1989 revolution was a turning point for all Czechoslovaks, with a profound effect on the form and reception...
Czech Drama 2006–2015
Over the past ten years or so, Czech drama has begun to show a more distinctive character, with young non-established writers, the...
Contemporary Czech Poetry
This summary is neither an in-depth analysis nor an exhaustive list of the major contemporary poetics, trends, poets, anthologies and poems aimed...
New Fantasy Literature
The area of popular literature commonly termed fantasy literature, which covers science fiction, fantasy and fantasy horror, also has its own unique...
Grants & Residencies
Apart from the below-listed grant providers, scholarships, etc. it´s possible to apply at individual municipalities. A range of activities can also be...
Book Market
Almost one half of the population (48%) bought at least one book throughout the year ; this was 71% in 2007, and...
Reading and other media
(Book) reading cannot be examined just as an activity on its own. For about a hundred years now there has been no...
Translators & Czech studies specialists
Mirko Kraetsch
Born 1971 in Dresden, Germany. He graduated in Czech studies and culture science from Humboldt University, Berlin, and Charles University, Prague. Since...
Kepa Uharte
Translator from Czech, writer and activist in the fight against the sexual abuse of children in Spain. He graduated in Arabic and...
Eva Profousová
Eva Profousová (1963), translator. She emigrated to Germany in 1983 and studied Eastern European history and Slavonic Studies in Hamburg and Glasgow....
Kathrin Janka
Born in Freiburg/Breisgau, studied Slavonic Studies (Russian and Czech literature), Eastern European history, German Studies and Comparative Studies at Freie Universität Berlin,...
Alex Zucker
Alex has translated novels by J. R. Pick, Petra Hůlová, Jáchym Topol, Magdaléna Platzová, Tomáš Zmeškal, Josef Jedlička, Heda Margolius Kovály, Patrik...
Alessandro Catalano
Graduated in Czech Studies and history from La Sapienza University in Rome. He taught Czech literature in Florence and Pisa and is...
Andrea Balázs
Translator. She graduated in Czech and Hungarian from the Faculty of Arts of Eötvös Lóránd University in Budapest. She has worked as...
Publishers
Stigmati
Another publisher of Czech literature based in Sofie. Recent authors published by Stigmati include Daniela Hodrová (Théta, 2002, translated by Dobromir Grigorov; Kukly,...
Aspekt
Aspekt publishers comprise three Swedish Bohemists and translators: Tora Hedin, Mats Larsson and Lova Meister. Their catalogue is made up exclusively of...
Braumüller
A publishing house run by Vienna-based Konstanz and Bernhard Borovanský, focusing over the last few years on contemporary Czech literature. It has...
Dalkey Archive Press
One of the few overseas publishers to take account of contemporary Czech literature, bringing out works by Michal Ajvaz (Druhé město, 2009,...
Poldi libri
Originally an Italian and now a Czech-Italian publishing house based in Brno and focusing exclusively on selected 20th century Czech titles. Since...
Modrijan
In its extensive catalogue this Ljubljana publishing house has space for Czech literature from the last few decades. It has brought out...
Arima Publishing
An “on-demand” publishing house, focusing on Czech literature classics. It has brought out works by Vladimír Holan (První testament, 2005; Noc s Halmetem / Noc...
Panorama plus
Sofia publishers with a strong focus on original Czech literature (including drama) from the latter half of the 20th century. Since 2000...
Kalligram
A Slovak publishing house that brings out Czech literature in Hungarian translation. Since 2000, for example, it has brought out works by...
Bokvennen
The only Norwegian publishers to currently deal on an ongoing basis with translations of Czech literature. Thanks to Bohemist Kristin Kilsti it...
Al Shaar
Ghiját al-Mawsilí (Ghias Mousli), a doctor from Homs in Syria, who studied and for many years lived in Czechoslovakia, translates from Czech...
Atut
A Wroclaw publishing house focusing on non-mainstream Czech literature. In addition to an anthology of contemporary Czech poetry Kdyby básně měly dveře (2005,...
La différence
A Paris publishing house that has taken on the publication of the five-volume collected works of Ladislav Klíma in French. Editor and...
News
How Was the Czech Literary Centre’s Year of Poetry? | 22. 12. 2021
Video series, events in the Czech Republic and abroad, and new publicationsOver the past year, the Czech Literary Centre (CLC), a section...
Antonín Bajaja and Miloš Urban nominated for Russian award | 7. 7. 2016
The award for foreign language books is organised by the Mayakovsky Library in St Petersburg.The competition has two categories: best book translated...
A novella by a young Czech writer wins an English Literary Prize | 11. 4. 2011
Hana Sklenková, the University of Plymouth BA in English and Creative Writing and MA in Creative Writing graduate (2007; 2009) has been...
The Czech Literary Centre to Organise its First Group Residency for Translators | 17. 9. 2022
An extract from Jáchym Topol’s new novel will be translated.This year, the Czech Literary Centre, a section of the Moravian Library, is...
The laureate of the 2019 Jaroslav Seifert Prize is Miroslav Petříček | 27. 9. 2019
The panel praised the continuity, readability and outreach of his philosophical work.The Jaroslav Seifert Prize, a prestigious literary award presented since 1986,...
Pavel Šrut receives State Award for Literature for his body of work | 2. 11. 2015
Šrut (b. 1940) is an author of prose, poetry and books for children.He studied English and Spanish at Charles University in Prague...
Czech PEN Club awards Karel Čapek Prize to Petr Šabach | 19. 1. 2016
Prosaist Petr Šabach became the winner of the 2016 Karel Čapek Prize on 7 January.Šabach is best known for his tragicomic novels...
“Like night and day” | 5. 2. 2010
This is how the translator Tatjana Jamnik (1976) explains the differences between the Polish and Czech languages. On 24 November, 2009 she...
Poetry – The priority of the Czech Literary Centre for 2021 | 13. 1. 2021
After comics, the CLC will focus on another often overlooked area: poetry.Last year, the Czech Literary Centre (CLC), a section of the...
Jiří Hájíček in the Best European Fiction 2017 anthology | 5. 1. 2017
Short stories featured in the book receive international media coverage and are included in a number of readings in the US and...
Petra Hůlová’s ‘Three Plastic Rooms’ receives PEN Translates award | 20. 6. 2017
Alex Zucker’s English translation of Hůlová’s fourth novel will be published in November.On 8th June, English PEN announced its latest list of...
Reading and panel discussion with translator Alex Zucker in London | 9. 3. 2016
Alex Zucker will be discussing his new translation, Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life by Josef Jedlička, on 14 April.Written between...
After its success in Leipzig, the Czech Republic will be a guest of honour at the Warsaw Book Fair in 2020 | 28. 5. 2019
The Moravian Library wants to bring 20 Czech authors to the Warsaw Fair next year.The Moravian Library has been commissioned by the...
Jiří Theiner award for Paul Wilson at Book World | 13. 6. 2013
The award was presented to the Canadian translator on 16 May. Paul Wilson is an Ontario-born journalist, broadcaster and translator. He was...
Writers’ summer trips abroad supported by the Czech Literary Centre | 20. 9. 2019
Jan Škrob in Paris, Jan Němec and Tereza Semotamová in WannseeJan Škrob, who gained a monthly scholarship in the residence house Cité...
Jaroslav Rudiš to receive German Preis der Literaturhauser (Award of Literature Houses) | 20. 1. 2018
The prestigious literary award will be presented at the Leipzig Book Fair on 15 March.The Czech author will receive the award for...
Vojtěch Mašek to spend four weeks at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival | 24. 9. 2019
The Czech Literary Centre, a section of the Moravian Library, is launching a collaboration with the festival in Kendal.On 24th September the...
As If I Have Written Several Books | 5. 1. 2010
An interview with Radka Denemarková, where among other topics she talks about the foreign reception of her novel Money from Hitler (Peníze...
“However the novel is received, I spent a great year writing it,” | 2. 10. 2013
says editor and novelist Jan Němec, whose fictionalized biography of a prominent Czech photographer comes out this month.In 2010 you were among three...
This is what we live in, it’s not just a wild fantasy of mine | 25. 10. 2010
Alena Blažejovská interviews writer and screenwriter Michal Viewegh about his book Biomanželka (Bio-Wife, published by Druhé město), the movie adaptation of his...
Excerpts
I Wake Up in Shibuya
Part II: Shibuya   1. It’s Saturday night. The only thing I know for sure is that it’s 2010 and I’m in...
Non-lieux urbains: Lieux urbains oubliés, éphémères et négligés
En guise d’introduction   C’était un lieu étrange, entre la station de métro Palmovka et le quartier de Horní Libeň, à Prague....