Čapek wrote 48 stories that deconstruct the mystery story by breaking one rule here, three rules there, and yet also make for wonderful reading. His unique approaches to the mysteries of justice and truth are full of the ordinary and the extraordinary, humor and humanism.
News
Czech writers published in a new English-language magazine
Apofenie magazine focuses on Czech literary output
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.
Typography & Design
Czech typography
Over the past two decades, the Czech Republic has witnessed an incredible boom in type design. While increased interest in typography c...
Illustrators
Zdeněk Sklenář (1910–1986) Painter, graphic artist, typographer. His fine-art and illustrative work was radically influenced by a vis...
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...