His name was Frank Pérák and people knew him as a mysterious figure with jumping springs on his feet. The fictional hero was raging in the occupied Czech Lands during World War II, jumping even over high tenements and also across the Vltava River valley.
News
Anthology of European Poetry
Poets from the Czech Republic included in the anthology are Jonáš Hájek, Ondřej Hanus, Štěpán Nosek and Kamil Bouška.
Announcement of the 2018 Muriel Award winners for the best comic book
Most awards were “scooped up” by Vojtěch Mašek.
Marek Šindelka’s successes in Belgium and the Netherlands
Únava materiálu (Material Fatigue, 2016) voted one of the top books in these countries in 2018
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.
Typography & Design
Graphic designers
František Muzika (1900–1974) Painter, graphic designer, illustrator, typographer, stage designer. A pupil of Vratislav Nechleba and Ja...
Illustrators
Zdeněk Sklenář (1910–1986) Painter, graphic artist, typographer. His fine-art and illustrative work was radically influenced by a vis...
Czech typography
Over the past two decades, the Czech Republic has witnessed an incredible boom in type design. While increased interest in typography c...
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...