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The Czech Literary Centre has published five new brochures in two languages

The titles are intended mainly for foreign publishers and translators.

On the Paris Book Fair

An interview with Sára Vybíralová and Guillaume Basset

The Livre Paris 2020 book fair has been cancelled

The book fair in Paris has been called off due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus.

Bianca Bellová’s four-part tour of Spanish cities

The Czech writer appeared in Malaga, Seville, Madrid and Barcelona.

Successful Czech Literary Centre Spring 2020 residency applications announced

Eight residencies will be organised in Prague and Brno for translators and Czech studies specialists.

On the Paris Book Fair

An interview with Sára Vybíralová and Guillaume Basset

The Livre Paris 2020 book fair has been cancelled

The book fair in Paris has been called off due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus.

Bianca Bellová’s four-part tour of Spanish cities

The Czech writer appeared in Malaga, Seville, Madrid and Barcelona.

New books in translation More>

A Sensitive Person

Jáchym Topol

Trans. Laura Angeloni | Italian

Madly Sad Stories

Tereza Boučková

Trans. Ildikó Forgács | Hungarian

The Dragon Never Sleeps

Jiří Grus, Vojtěch Mašek, Džian Baban

Trans. Benoît Meunier | French

Bitter World

Josef Škvorecký

Trans. Andrzej S. Jagodziňski, Jan Stachowski | Polish

Award-winning booksMore>

I Wake Up in Shibuya

Anna Cima

2019 Czech Book Award

Hours of Lead

Radka Denemarková

2019 Magnesia Litera – Book of the Year

The Theory of Strangeness

Pavla Horáková

2019 Magnesia Litera – Prose

Pernambuco

Ivan Wernisch

2019 Magnesia Litera – Poetry

NewsMore>

Two new brochures of the Czech Literary Centre

New Czech books in the autumn edition and Czech comics since 2000

The laureate of the 2019 Jaroslav Seifert Prize is Miroslav Petříček

The panel praised the continuity, readability and outreach of his philosophical work.

Vojtěch Mašek to spend four weeks at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival

The Czech Literary Centre, a section of the Moravian Library, is launching a collaboration with the festival in Kendal.

Czech Literary Centre residencies (spring 2020)

The deadline for submitting applications is 3 November, 2019.

Writers’ summer trips abroad supported by the Czech Literary Centre

Jan Škrob in Paris, Jan Němec and Tereza Semotamová in Wannsee

Foreign publishers in Prague

On the occasion of the Book World and Knihex festivals, the Czech Literary Centre organized two tours for 20 foreign publishers.