Authors
One of the most frequently translated Czech authors and recipient of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize (2002), the Magnesia Litera (2010), the...
Books
Ivan Klíma Ivan Klíma, “a writer of enormous power and originality” (The New York Times Book Review), has penned an intimate autobiography that explores...
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...
Ivan Klíma Ivan Klíma has returned to his favorite literary form – the short story, which he considers the most difficult form to master....
Ivan Klíma Have you ever been to Fairy-Tale Land? If not, come and explore this marvellous country with a genuine reporter. Visit strange cities...
Ivan Klíma Through four sensuous tales, a young man traces his harsh coming of age in Czechoslovakia, where faith in love, country and human...
Ivan Klíma Contemporary Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klíma has transformed his lifelong admiration for the work of the great Czech novelist and playwright...
Ladislav Klíma ...when the Communist regime prohibited publication of Klima ’s work. In the 1970s, The Plastic People of the Universe set the novella to music....
Ivan Klíma Spanish edition of Ivan Klíma’s Láska a smetí. Description from the English edition: The narrator of Love and Garbage has temporarily abandoned...
Ivan Klíma Part thriller, part domestic tragedy, at once political and intensely personal, Ivan Kilma’s epicly scaled new novel is an inquest into the...
Ivan Klíma A collection of essays charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia, including events such as: the Nazi occupation; the Stalinist...
Ivan Klíma From an internationally acclaimed Czech writer comes a shrewd, humane, and poignant novel, set in Prague before the Velvet Revolution, whose perceptions...
Jiří Kratochvil “It really hasn’t occurred to you that we’re about to embark on a long string of foolish dreams in our never-ending coma?”...
Ivan Klíma One of the last artistic expressions of life under communism, this novel captures the atmosphere in Prague between 1983 and 1987, where...
Ivan Klíma Ivan Klima has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as “a literary gem who is too little appreciated in the West” and a...
Ivan Klíma This intriguing novel describes life before, during and after the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia. Pavel is a middle-aged TV cameraman working...
Ivan Klíma Set in the present-day Czech Republic, this novel traces a year in the life of a Protestant pastor, Daniel Vedra. Ostensibly a...
Ivan Klíma Ivan Klima has been acclaimed by Booklist as “one of the most important literary voices of Eastern Europe, on a par with Havel,...
The 19th century fin de siècle and its heady aftermath were fascinating years of intellectual and cultural ferment throughout Europe, with a... Post-1989 changes The November 1989 revolution was a turning point for all Czechoslovaks, with a profound effect on the form and reception... Nose: Mellow, full of traces of contrasting aromas. As though after the fall of communism Czech prose never quite recovered from the... It’s hard to provide an account of the literary connections between any two countries during the 20th and the early 21st century... The present and the prospects Introduction Historically, Czech literature has always been relatively well represented in bookshops throughout the English-speaking world,... The year 1945 is popularly considered an important milestone, at which point the effect, role and subject matter of Czech literature undergoes... Post-1989 changes The November 1989 revolution was a turning point for all Czechoslovaks, with a profound effect on the form and reception... Afera (Poland) A one-woman project run by Julie Różewicz, publisher, translator and literary promoter all in one. She focuses on contemporary Czech... The area of popular literature commonly termed fantasy literature, which covers science fiction, fantasy and fantasy horror, also has its own unique... Over the past ten years or so, Czech drama has begun to show a more distinctive character, with young non-established writers, the... Translators & Czech studies specialists
Gerald Turner (born in England, 1947) has been translating Czech literature since the late 1970s. During the 1980s he translated leading Czech... Translator from Czech, writer and activist in the fight against the sexual abuse of children in Spain. He graduated in Arabic and... A Paris publishing house that has taken on the publication of the five-volume collected works of Ladislav Klíma in French. Editor and... says Sid, one of the founders of Twisted Spoon Press, perhaps the most renowned English language publisher operating out of Prague since... Prosaist Petr Šabach became the winner of the 2016 Karel Čapek Prize on 7 January.Šabach is best known for his tragicomic novels... The poet is the fifth Czech recipient of the prestigious award. Ivan Wernisch is the 2018 winner of the Franz Kafka Prize.... The award honours the best books from US independent publishers.I Want You to Be (University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) is one... The award was presented to the Canadian translator on 16 May. Paul Wilson is an Ontario-born journalist, broadcaster and translator. He was... 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 professor emerita at the University of British Columbia will receive the award in May at Book World Prague.Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz is a... The 17th annual literary festival will take place from 1st July to 4th August. The festival was first held in Brno in... The Dog “Comr…. Sir, let us leave,” Matsa will never learn to address him right, Yura smiled at the thought of... ...warten, bis das ganze Gewese verstummt ist, um dann als gewöhnlicher Besucher dort vorbeizuschauen. Das schwüle und feuchte Klima des tropischen Regenwaldes und die...
