On the night of 30/31 May 1945 Gerta Schnirch, the mother of a baby daughter, is “displaced” from Brno with the rest of the German community and nothing but a few personal belongings, and pointed in the direction of Vienna.
News
Host publishes publication overview in English
Foreign rights catalogue 2018
Poems by Kamil Bouška widely published in english-language journals
The Czech poet has recently appeared in Gulf Coast and eight other literary magazines.
A new production inspired by Patrik Ouředník’s Europeana
Heiner Goebbels’s Everything that happened and would happen is based on the most translated post-1989 Czech book.
Four Czech books for children on the 2018 White Ravens list
The prestigious catalogue is published every year by the International Youth Library in Munich.
Czech comics authors in the UK
Tomáš Kučerovský and Toy_Box at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival and the British Library.
Reminder: Czech Literary Centre grants for authors travelling to literary events between 1.1. to 15.5.2019
The deadline for applications is 31.10.2018.
Typography & Design
Graphic designers
František Muzika (1900–1974) Painter, graphic designer, illustrator, typographer, stage designer. A pupil of Vratislav Nechleba and Ja...
The Most Beautiful Books of the Year
About the competition Since the establishment of the Museum of Czech Literature (PNP), books as well as rare archive material have for...
International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno
History of the Brno Biennial Inaugurated in 1963, the International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno is one of the oldest and most i...
Illustrators
Zdeněk Sklenář (1910–1986) Painter, graphic artist, typographer. His fine-art and illustrative work was radically influenced by a vis...