Authors
Bianca Bellová. Photo: Jan Trnka
Bianca Bellová
Bianca Bellová (1970) was born in Prague, where she lives halfway between the Balkan and British parts of her family. She is a...
Books
Bianca Bellová
...Bellová’s raw, ruthless, apocalyptic prose with astonishment. It’s a stubborn and prickly book, which resists the reader until the last sentence, yet you won’t...
Mona
Bianca Bellová
Following the international success of her novel Jezero (The Lake), which has been translated into 13 languages, Bianca Bellová returns with another dystopia....
Nami
Bianca Bellová
...Bellová’s raw, ruthless, apocalyptic prose with astonishment. It’s a stubborn and prickly book, which resists the reader until the last sentence, yet you won’t...
Am See
Bianca Bellová
...Bellová’s raw, ruthless, apocalyptic prose with astonishment. It’s a stubborn and prickly book, which resists the reader until the last sentence, yet you won’t...
Mona
Bianca Bellová
Following the international success of her novel Jezero (The Lake), which has been translated into 13 languages, Bianca Bellová returns with another dystopia....
Het meer
Bianca Bellová
...boy’s coming of age into an often-disconcerting modern myth. Praise “A bleak story about adolescence with existential power.” —Börsenblatt “You will read Bianca Bellová’s...
Mona
Bianca Bellová
Following the international success of her novel Jezero (The Lake), which has been translated into 13 languages, Bianca Bellová returns with another dystopia....
Il lago
Bianca Bellová
...Bellová’s raw, ruthless, apocalyptic prose with astonishment. It’s a stubborn and prickly book, which resists the reader until the last sentence, yet you won’t...
Jezioro
Bianca Bellová
...Bellová’s raw, ruthless, apocalyptic prose with astonishment. It’s a stubborn and prickly book, which resists the reader until the last sentence, yet you won’t...
Mrtvý muž
Bianca Bellová
...Praise “The imagery of Bianca Bellová’s Dead Man is fascinating, it pulses with its own language. Despite its fierceness, the text is organised and...
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      Ostrov
      Bianca Bellová
      ...looking back to the past and unable to stop decay and extinction. This atmosphere evokes Bianca Bellová’s previous novels – The Lake and Mona...
      Tyhle fragmenty
      Bianca Bellová
      ...context. In this collection of short stories, Bianca Bellová, winner of the 2017 EU Prize for Literature, demonstrates her mastery of the form. The...
      Die letzte Metro
      Martin Becker
      ...into German for the first time for this anthology. The book contains texts by: Bianca Bellová, Ondřej Buddeus, Dora Čechova, Vladimíra Čerepková, Irena Dousková,...
      Romanzo senti/mentale
      Bianca Bellová
      One day, two places, two people and two encounters with death trigger a montage of memories, experiences, beginnings, false conclusions and deformed...
      El lago
      Bianca Bellová
      A dystopian page-turner about the coming of age of a young hero, which won the 2017 EU Prize for Literature. A fishing...
      Jezero
      Bianca Bellová
      A dystopian page-turner about the coming of age of a young hero, which won the 2017 EU Prize for Literature. A fishing...
      Ežeras
      Bianca Bellová
      A dystopian page-turner about the coming of age of a young hero, which won the 2017 EU Prize for Literature. A fishing...
      Toter Mann
      Bianca Bellová
      This novella clearly shows that a new riveting storyteller has appeared in Czech literature. The story is a monologue of a woman...
      The Lake
      Bianca Bellová
      A dystopian page-turner about the coming of age of a young hero, which won the 2017 EU Prize for Literature. A fishing...
      Sentimentální román
      Bianca Bellová
      One day, two places, two people and two encounters with death trigger a montage of memories, experiences, beginnings, false conclusions and deformed...
      Søen
      Bianca Bellová
      A dystopian page-turner about the coming of age of a young hero, which won the 2017 EU Prize for Literature. A fishing...
      Jezero
      Bianca Bellová
      A dystopian page-turner about the coming of age of a young hero, which won the 2017 EU Prize for Literature. A fishing...
      Celý den se nic nestane
      Bianca Bellová
      It’s a summer’s day after a storm, perhaps in Prague, maybe this year or next. Two women, Lola and Marta, a mother...
Monthly features
Best Czech literary fiction 2016 | 30. 3. 2017
...have the potential to appeal to international readers.   Contents Bianca Bellová: The Lake Jiří Hájíček: The Rainstick Petr Stančík: An Angel’s Egg Zuzana...
Czech literature in English translation | 2. 11. 2015
...Kolský, Boučková, Nosková, Pekárková, Ráž, Toman, Bellová, Denemarková, Dousková, Neff, Hájíček, Kratochvil, Němec, Komárek, Soukupová and Viewegh, and that is not to mention genres...
Resources
Publishers of Czech literature in translation
...2013), Stanislav Komárek (Černý domeček, 2010), Markéta Hejkalová (Kouzelník z Pekingu, 2012) and Bianka Bellová (Mrtvý muž, 2014) in translations by Austrian and German...
Translators & Czech studies specialists
Daniel Ordóñez
...translated several books, including the EU Prize for Literature winning The Lake by Bianca Bellová, or the graphic novel Saint Barbara by Marek Šindelka,...
Veronika Siska
...Czech culture”. She is a freelance editor and translator and has translated books by Michal Ajvaz, Bianca Bellová, Iva Pekárkova and Pavla Šuranská....
Halina Lapiňa
...Drda’s Czech Fairy Tales, Ad acta by Patrik Ouředník, Of Kids and Parents by Emil Hakl, The Lake by Bianca Bellová, and three books...
Publishers
Braumüller
...rodičích a dětech, 2010; Pravidla směšného chování, 2013), Stanislav Komárek (Černý domeček, 2010), Markéta Hejkalová (Kouzelník z Pekingu, 2012) and Bianka Bellová (Mrtvý muž, 2014)...
News
Bianca Bellová at Literaturfestival Berlin | 7. 9. 2018
On 13th September, there will be a reading from the German translation of Bellová’s novel Jezero (The Lake) with the support of the...
Bianca Bellová receives 2017 EU Prize for Literature | 2. 5. 2017
Bellová’s novel The Lake (Jezero) was published in 2016 to widespread critical acclaim. The Czech national jury led by the director of the...
Bianca Bellová’s four-part tour of Spanish cities | 28. 2. 2020
The Czech writer appeared in Malaga, Seville, Madrid and Barcelona.With the support of the Czech Literary Centre, writer Bianca Bellová toured four Spanish...
Czech authors Bellová, Maňák and Šindelka nominated for EU Prize for Literature | 23. 3. 2017
The award aims to put the spotlight on European contemporary fiction.The Czech nominees are: Bianca Bellová: The Lake (Jezero, Host 2016) Set near...
“But what does it mean to be well known in Germany?”, | 10. 4. 2012
...the likes of Marek Šindelka and Bianka Bellová, with you interpreting and doing most of the reading yourself. What do you think is more...
Call for Submissions: 2017 Susanna Roth Award | 21. 11. 2016
For the fourth annual international competition for young translators, contestants must translate an excerpt from Bianca Bellová’s The Lake.The award, named after renowned...
Expanding Horizons through Translation | 2. 5. 2022
...the University of Regensburg, while there will be a discussion between Andrzej Jagodzinsky and Martin Jiroušek at the University of Katowice. Bianca Bellová will...
Magnesia Litera Awards presented at the National Theatre New Scene in Prague | 28. 4. 2017
Book of the year goes to Bianca Bellová for her novel Jezero (The Lake).The winners of the prestigious Czech literary award were announced...
Ondřej Štindl’s New Novel Nominated for the 2023 European Union Prize for Literature | 7. 3. 2023
...– though based on the competition’s earlier rules – were Tomáš Zmeškal (2011), Jan Němec (2014), Bianca Bellová (2017) and Lucie Faulerová (2021)....
Lucie Faulerová Wins the EU Prize for Literature | 27. 5. 2021
...Milostný dopis klínovým písmem, Love Letter in Cuneiform), Jan Němec (2014, Dějiny světla, A History of Light) and Bianca Bellová (2017, Jezero, The Lake)....
Czech writers published in a new English-language magazine | 4. 12. 2018
...from novels and short stories: a short story called “Vertigo” by Bianka Bellová, translated by Julia Sutton-Mattocks, an extract from the novel Lapači prachu...
The Czech Republic the Main Guest Country at the Warsaw Book Fair 2021 | 9. 7. 2021
...are as follows: Michal Ajvaz, Bianca Bellová, David Böhm, Radka Denemarková, Petr Hruška, Petra Hůlová, Galina Miklínová, Iva Procházková, Jaroslav Rudiš, Marek Šindelka and...
On the Paris Book Fair | 26. 3. 2020
...with programme planners from Paris to ensure higher attendance than is usual for Czech authors (Grus and Bellová were supposed to be taking part...
Magnesia Litera nominations revealed | 22. 3. 2017
...Bianca Bellová: The Lake (Jezero) Poetry: Tomáš Gabriel: Everyday Heroism (Obvyklé hrdinství) Vít Janota: A Weekend in Some Kind of Switzerland (Víkend v jakémsi...