World Literature in Czechia – Czech Literature in the World
World Literature in Czechia – Czech Literature in the World

International Conference (Call for Papers)

Comics – this year’s priority of the Czech Literary Centre

The CLC supports Czech comics through artists’ residences, a digital programme, and events in the Czech Republic and abroad.

The Czech Literary Centre awarded scholarships to 16 writers

Scholarships should support Czech writers at a time when their residencies, author readings and participation in festivals have been cancelled.

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

Comics – this year’s priority of the Czech Literary Centre

The CLC supports Czech comics through artists’ residences, a digital programme, and events in the Czech Republic and abroad.

The Czech Literary Centre awarded scholarships to 16 writers

Scholarships should support Czech writers at a time when their residencies, author readings and participation in festivals have been cancelled.

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

The titles are intended mainly for foreign publishers and translators.

New books in translation More>
Mona
Bianca Bellová
Trans. Laura Angeloni | Italian
In the Jungle with Baťa
Markéta Pilátová
Trans. Alessandro De Vito | Italian
A Sensitive Person
Jáchym Topol
Trans. Laura Angeloni | Italian
Madly Sad Stories
Tereza Boučková
Trans. Ildikó Forgács | Hungarian
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>
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.

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 literature in a nutshellMore>
Chapter 1
Literature from 1900–1945
Chapter 2
Literature after 1945
Chapter 3
Czech prose since 1989
Chapter 4
Contemporary Czech Poetry
Chapter 5
New Fantasy Literature
Chapter 6
Czech Drama 2006–2015