The Czech Literary Centre, a section of the Moravian Library, in cooperation with the Czech Scout Foundation announces its summer and autumn 2019 residencies in Prague and Brno.
New books in translation
So far So Good
Jan Novák, Jaromír 99
Trans. Mirko Kraetsch | German
My Journey to Nowhere
Martin Vopěnka
Trans. Raija Hauck | German
To the Interior
Vladimíra Valová
Trans. Christina Frankenberg | German
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
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...
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...