Authors
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Petr Kolečko
Playwright and screenwriter for television projects. He was born in Broumov on 28 March 1984, he studied directing and screenwriting at Prague’s...
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Petr Stančík
Poet, prose writer, author of children’s books, playwright, copywriter and essayist also writing under the name of Petr Odillo Stradický ze Strdic, a...
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Petr Šabach
Petr Šabach (1951-2017) was a prose writer and journalist. Many of his books have been turned into successful films. His books have also...
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Petr Borkovec
Petr Borkovec (1970) is a translator and poet, recipient of many awards for his poetry including South Tyrol’s Norbert C Kaser Award and...
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Petr Hruška
Petr Hruška (1964) is a poet and literary historian who lives in Ostrava. His poetry has won a number of state and international...
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      Petr Placák
      Historian, journalist, lyricist, poet and prose writer. Winner of the Jiří Orten Award (1989) and the Magnesia Litera for prose (2008). His...
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      Petr Pazdera Payne
      Poet, dramatist and novelist, priest. He graduated in wood craft and from the Comenius Protestant Theological Faculty. He has worked as a...
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      Petr Sís
      Painter, graphic artist, creator of animated films, illustrator, writer, journalist. He is the winner of the most prestigious prize for children’s books,...
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      Petr Král
      Poet, essayist, film theoretician and translator. Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and winner of the 2016 Czech...
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      Petr Nikl
      Artist, writer, illustrator, musician and dramatist. Nikl’s father was a painter and his mother was a doll designer. He studied at the...
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      Petr Zelenka
      Author of screenplays and stage plays, director. Winner of several prizes for directing (he has four Czech Lions and a Crystal Globe...
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      Radka Denemarková
      ...Hitlera (Money from Hitler), journalism, Smrt, nebudeš se báti aneb Příběh Petra Lébla (Thou Shalt Not Fear Death: The Story of Petr Lébl) and...
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      Michal Viewegh
      Novelist, one of the best-selling and most widely read authors today. His work has been translated into 23 languages including English, German...
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      Karel Šiktanc
      Poet, translator, author of children’s books, lyricist, journalist. Twice winner of the Jaroslav Seifert Award (1989, 2011), the State Prize for Literature...
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      Ivan Matoušek
      Artist, poet and novelist, one of the most distinctive Czech authors of recent years. He was the recipient of the Revolver revue...
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      Emil Hakl
      Writer, recipient of several literary awards including two Magnesia Literas and the Josef Škvorecký Award. One of our most appreciated and widely...
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      Magdaléna Platzová
      Writer, dramatist, children’s writer and journalist. Her books have been published in English, German and Dutch. She was born in Prague on...
      Irena Douskova
      Irena Dousková
      Screenwriter, journalist, poet and prose writer. She was born in 1964 in Příbram into a family of actors. She has lived in...
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      Lenka Lagronová
      Dramatist, author of radio plays, recipient of the Alfréd Radok Award (1998). Her plays have been performed at home and abroad and...
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      Ludvík Němec
      Novelist and poet nominated for the Magnesia Litera. Also a script editor for Czech Radio and a literary editor. He was born...
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      Jiří Kratochvil
      Novelist, essayist, playwright. He is the recipient of many literary awards including the Tom Stoppard Prize (1991), the Egon Hostovský Award (1996),...
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      Jaromír Typlt
      Writer, poet, artist, curator, book editor. Winner of the Jiří Orten Award (1994). He was born in Nová Paka on 25 July...
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      Jaroslav Kovanda
      Poet, novelist, journalist, painter, sculptor and editor, long-standing editor-in-chief of the poetry magazine Psí víno (Dog Wine). He was nominated for the...
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      Pavel Kolmačka
      Pavel Kolmačka (1962) is a poet, writer and translator. After graduating from the Technical University he worked as an assistant at the...
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      Jan Němec
      Poet and prose writer, recipient of the European Union Prize for Literature (2014) and the Czech Book Award (2014), he was also...
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      David Zábranský
      Novelist and author of radio plays. Winner of the Magnesia Litera (2007) for discovery of the year, also nominated for the Josef...
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      Pavel Šrut
      Pavel Šrut (1940-2018), poet, author of song lyrics, children’s stories, fiction and feuilletons, also a translator and cultural editor. He was included...
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      Petra Hůlová
      Petra Hůlová (1979) is a fiction writer and the recipient of several literary awards, including Czechia’s highest literary recognitions – the Magnesia Litera...
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      Pavel Čech
      Writer, painter and author of artist’s books and comics for children. He was awarded the Magnesia Litera in 2013 for Velké dobrodružství...
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      Marek Šindelka
      Poet and prose writer, winner of the Jiří Orten Prize (2006) and two Magnesia Literas for prose (2012, 2017). His books have...
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      Miloš Doležal
      Poet, writer, documentarist and journalist. An editor for Czech Radio who has made several programmes about the Second World War and communist...
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      Michal Šanda
      Prose writer, experimenter, poet, playwright, publishing editor. Winner of the Golden Pen of Ondřej Pavelka prize (2013) conferred by theatre professionals connected...
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      Sylvie Richterová
      Prose writer, poet and literary theorist and émigrée – since 1971 she has lived in Italy, and since the Velvet Revolution alternately...
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      Petra Soukupová
      Prose writer, screenwriter, author of books for adults and children. Winner of the Jiří Orten Award (2008) and the Magnesia Litera for...
Books
Petr Král
Petr Král
Loving Venice
Petr Král
For lovers of Venice, Petr Král’s Loving Venice (Aimer Venise) is a poetic and deeply-felt portrait of this eternally fascinating city, that delves...
Praha noir
Pavel Mandys (ed.)
...explore the mysterious world of the Jewish ghetto with Petr Stančík, read Petra Soukupová’s account of an unexplained disappearance in Stromovka park or follow...
H. U. S. (Hus úplně světovej)
Klára Smolíková
A trip to Constance is at stake for the winner of a competition for the best project on John Hus, but Petr Mladý,...
Gówno sie pali
Petr Šabach
Gówno sie pali (Shit Burns) is Petr Šabach’s 1994 short story collection. The book later served as an inspiration for the film Pelíšky...
O díře z trychtýře
Petr Stančík
Have you ever read a fairy tale whose main character doesn’t exist? Now you can. The book written by Petr Stančík (Magnesia Litera...
In Search of the Essence of Place
Petr Král
...the façades of the urban Potemkin village, with emotion but without nostalgia. In Search of the Essence of Place is a memoir of Petr...
Věci, které ztrácíme
Petr Borkovec
...poet Petr Borkovec has written an enjoyable pop-up book for children about the things we leave behind on the train, at school, on a...
Zvuky probouzení
Petr Třešňák
...and wife Petr and Petra Třešňák tells the story of bringing up a daughter with autism combined with intellectual disability and severe behavioural issues....
Monthly features
Contemporary Czech Poetry | 13. 2. 2017
...of the poets from the middle generation, the most emulated is Petr Hruška, followed by J. H. Krchovský, Miloslav Topinka, Petr Král, Ivan Wernisch,...
Czech Poetry 2010–2020 | 21. 12. 2021
...and Petr Hruška. Dynka continued in his stubborn search for a language capable of expressing the subtle values of intimacy and the strangeness of...
Comics for Children and Young Adults Post-2000 (Part Two: 2010–2019) | 13. 1. 2020
...Růžovej vlk (Matilda and the Pink Wolf) by Petra Josefína Stibitzová and Jana Šrámková. Raketa (Rocket) The sector of magazines aimed at young adults...
Czech Literature in Hungarian Translation | 6. 10. 2016
...include Petr Hruška, Jan Skácel, Egon Bondy, Michael Lorence, Oldřich Mikulášek, Jiří Orten and Lenka Kuhar Daňhelová. In addition to publishing poems, short stories...
Best Czech literary fiction 2015 | 2. 2. 2016
...with literary fiction, followed by books for children and young adults in March and genre fiction in April.   Contents Petra Soukupová: Under the...
Czech Poetry in English Translation (1990 – 2020) | 24. 3. 2021
...26 Feb 2021, < https://www.lyrikline.org/en/about/ >. Other previously unmentioned poets like Ondřej Hanus, Petr Hruška, and Pavel Kolmačka have appeared in the Czech issue...
Fifteen years of the Magnesia Litera Awards | 8. 6. 2016
...of the most interesting award-winning books from the past five years Petr Stančík: Mummy Mill Ondřej Horák & Jiří Franta: Why Paintings Don’t Need...
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...
Eight Czech books from the first half of 2016 | 5. 7. 2016
...Brabcová: Aviaries Zuzana Lazarová: Iron Shirt Petra Dvořáková: The Net Michal Sýkora: It’s Not Over Yet Petra Stehlíková: The Listener Jan Novák & Jaromír...
The 1940s and 1950s in Contemporary Czech Prose | 7. 11. 2016
...winner in the prose category was Money from Hitler (Peníze od Hitlera) by Radka Denemarková, which reflects on postwar excesses; in 2008 Petr Placák...
The Major European Book Fairs: Past and Present Trends | 18. 2. 2020
...nakladatele: řemeslo, věda, umění. (A Publisher’s Handbook: Craft, Science, Art) Translation Petr Macháček and Jan Dvořák. Prague: Signeta, 2002, p. 131. One indication that...
Best Czech books for children and young adults 2016 | 27. 6. 2017
...Playful Science Petr Stančík: Chrujda the Badger Found his Great Love Vratislav Maňák: The Skydweller Tomáš Končinský & Barbora Klárová: Typo and Crust Ivona...
Best Czech books for children and young adults 2015 | 1. 3. 2016
...man once said,” added Granny. (Translated by Graeme Dibble)   Daniela Fischerová & Jitka Petrová Deformatory Pohoršovna (Mladá fronta, 120 pages) Age: 8+ This...
Comics for Children and Young Adults Post-2000 (Part One: 2000–2009) | 9. 10. 2019
...worth mentioning an unsuccessful attempt to launch an original commercial series which Jan Jelen (script) and Petra Z. Jelenová (artwork) came up with in...
The Susanna Roth Award | 8. 9. 2016
...Kopáč. Photo: Anna Pleslova. Petr Janyška, director of the Czech Centre in Warsaw, talked about Czech literature and Czech studies in Poland, where an...
Stančík’s imagery | 7. 5. 2015
...author who dealt with the Protectorate in Pérák. The latest work by Petr Stančík, entitled Mlýn na mumie (The Mummy Mill), is a thoroughly...
Czech prose since 2000 | 1. 9. 2015
...cannot be easily classified in terms of genre, e.g. Václav Kahuda (Houština, Undergrowth, 1999), while Petr Rákos (Korvína čili Kniha o havranech, Korvína or...
A hundred years of Czech literature in Israel | 1. 10. 2015
...was established. The survivor Eva Erbenová (born 1930 in Děčín as Eva Löwidt) moved there with her husband Petr (who was inter alia the...
“You can sometimes gain in translation, and not only lose” — An interview with Paddy Phillips | 8. 9. 2016
...brilliant speakers. I also enjoyed the lectures on Czech literature by Professor Petr A. Bílek and Dr David Drozd. The other highlight for me...
Report on the most beautiful Czech books | 1. 12. 2015
...Petr Babák, Jakub Jansa and Lukáš Kijonka came to creative terms with the limits of traditional exhibition media, while going over and beyond normal...
Best Czech genre fiction 2016 | 29. 5. 2017
...Contents Sci-fi/Fantasy Chaim Cigan: Puzzle Petra Stehlíková: The Listener Crime/Detective Michal Sýkora: It’s Not Over Yet Iva Procházková: Lightly Dressed Girls Jiří Březina: The...
Some half-forgotten treasures from the Czech literary corpus | 4. 1. 2016
...of the Czech nation is exemplified for Karásek in Petr Chelčický (c. 1390 – c. 1460), a quietist medieval author, who was subsequently to...
Contemporary Czech Literature Tasting Notes | 27. 4. 2015
...who prefers to patiently tell her tale over and over again (Michal Viewegh, Petr Šabach, Emil Hakl, Miloš Urban and Kateřina Tučková). It could...
Best Czech genre fiction 2015 | 4. 4. 2016
...— Petr A. Bílek, Respekt “There are many novels about a desolate earth in world sci-fi. Vopěnka’s novel is valuable mainly because it forces...
Modern Czech Literature Written by Women | 3. 8. 2016
...are: Zuzana Brabcová, Daniela Hodrová, Radka Denemarková, Petra Hůlová, Kateřina Tučková, Jakuba Katalpa and Irena Dousková. It is worth adding that it would be...
Contemporary Anglophone Literature in the Czech Republic | 7. 5. 2019
...circles. For example, Zucker has translated books by Patrik Ouředník, Petra Hůlová and Jáchym Topol. One independent publishing house based in Prague is Twisted...
Resources
Contemporary Czech Poetry
...of the poets from the middle generation, the most emulated is Petr Hruška, followed by J. H. Krchovský, Miloslav Topinka, Petr Král, Ivan Wernisch,...
Czech Drama 2006–2015
...described as driving forces in the theatre of the early 21st century. Foremost among them are Lenka Lagronová, Petr Zelenka, David Drábek, Martin Františák...
Literature after 1945
...the post-war work of Halas (What Now?, not published until 1957), Hrubín (Hiroshima, 1948) and Zahradníček (La Saletta, 1947). Prose fiction of the time...
Publishers of Czech literature in translation
...particularly prose. Since 2011 she has been publishing works by Jan Balabán (Prázdniny/Možná že odcházíme), Emil Hakl (Pravidla směšného chování), Petra Hůlová (Umělohmotný třípokoj),...
Czech prose since 1989
...cannot be easily classified in terms of genre, e.g. Václav Kahuda (Houština, Undergrowth, 1999), while Petr Rákos (Korvína čili Kniha o havranech, Korvína or...
New Fantasy Literature
...the first decade of the 21st century. Some of them have quickly joined the genre’s elite. Petra Neomillnerová (1970). A writer of commercially successful...
Advisory Board
...Sciences) Luboš MERHAUT (Institute for the Study of Czech Literature) Petr MINAŘÍK (Authors’ Reading Month) Vladimír PAPOUŠEK (Czech Studies Department, University of South Bohemia...
Report on the most beautiful Czech books of 2014
...books selected by Petr Babák, Jakub Jansa and Lukáš Kijonka came to creative terms with the limits of traditional exhibition media, while going over...
Translators & Czech studies specialists
Zsuzsanna Juhászné Hahn
...play From Stardust by Lenka Lagronová and short texts by Pavla Horáková, Jana Šrámková, Alice Horáčková, Petr Hruška, Jaroslav Rudiš, David Jan Žák, Otokar...
Adin Ljuca
...translated several works by Ivan Wernisch and Petr Hruška, and short-story collections by Jan Balabán and Jaromír Štětina. In addition to his own literary...
Kepa Uharte
...Me Home, 2012), Bohumil Hrabal (The Gentle Barbarian, 2014), Ota Pavel (The Death of the Beautiful Deer, 2015), Petr Šabach (Shit Burns, 2016) and...
Eva Profousová
...Petr Zelenka. She is actively involved in the presentation of literary translations (a founding member of www.weltlesebuehne.de and promoting the culture of Central and...
Daniel Ordóñez
...Cervantes Institute in Prague. His first literary translation was Petr Stančík’s Mummy Mill, which was published in Spain in 2016. Since then he has...
Justin Quinn
...of the Irish poetry magazine, Metre. His translations of the Czech poet Petr Borkovec, From the Interior, appeared in 2008 from Seren. He also...
Publishers
Panorama plus
...translated by M. Kjurkčieva), Petr Kolečko (Tři hry, 2010, translated by M. Kjurkčieva), Michal Ajvaz (Padesát pět měst, 2011, translated by M. Kjurkčieva), Milan...
Afera
...Since 2011 she has been publishing works by Jan Balabán (Prázdniny/Možná že odcházíme), Emil Hakl (Pravidla směšného chování), Petra Hůlová (Umělohmotný třípokoj), Petra Soukupová...
Modrijan
...2010, translated by N. Vidrih), Radka Denemarková (Peníze od Hitlera, 2010, translated by T. Jamnik; Kobold, 2013, translated by T. Jamnik) and Petr Placák (Fízl,...
Pushkin Press
Pushkin Press is a British-based publishing house dedicated to publishing novels, essays, memoirs and children’s books from around the world. Pushkin publishes Petr...
News
Petr Hruška’s Literary Tour of the US | 15. 3. 2024
...poet Petr Hruška’s literary tour of America, where he will present his Everything Indicates: Selected Poems (Blue Diode Press, 2023, translated by Jonathan Bolton)....
Petr Nikl nominated for 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award | 22. 1. 2018
...award in the world. The award is presented to authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and reading promoters. Petr Nikl (b. 1960) is an artist, writer,...
Petr Bezruč in Asymptote | 15. 7. 2015
Three poems translated by Jacob A. Bennett appear in the July issue of the online journal. Petr Bezruč (1867-1958) was a Czech poet...
Czech PEN Club awards Karel Čapek Prize to Petr Šabach | 19. 1. 2016
Prosaist Petr Šabach became the winner of the 2016 Karel Čapek Prize on 7 January.Šabach is best known for his tragicomic novels and...
Petr Král wins Czech State Award for Literature | 25. 10. 2016
...Working Knowledge. Treasons is a 1396-page collection of critical articles and essays by Petr Král, which introduces the reader to an extensive yet relatively...
Petr Král wins Jean Arp Prize for francophone literature | 26. 4. 2016
...annual Jean Arp Prize aims to promote the diversity of francophone literature. Petr Král is only the second author from a country where French...
Petr Sís wins award from The New York Times for ‘The Pilot and the Little Prince’ | 11. 11. 2014
Sís’s latest book is one of the ten winners of the 2014 Best Illustrated Children’s Books Awards. Sís’s biography of Antoine de...
How Was the Czech Literary Centre’s Year of Poetry? | 22. 12. 2021
...festivals and book fairs, where they had the opportunity to introduce their new books. A collection of poems by Petr Borkovec was published in...
The Czech Literary Centre awarded scholarships to 16 writers | 1. 6. 2020
...Poetry: Básník Ticho, Milan Děžinský, Petr Hruška, Jitka N. Srbová Comics: Džian Baban, Juliána Chomová, Lucie Lomová, S.d.Ch. Works for children and youth: Marka...
The Czech Republic at the 2016 Leipzig Book Fair | 15. 3. 2016
Authors Jaroslav Rudiš, Petr Stančík, Milena Slavická, Jiří Dvořák and Jiří Padevět will present their latest books. The Czech stand, organised by the...
Poetry – The priority of the Czech Literary Centre for 2021 | 13. 1. 2021
...poetry anthologies, the CLC will also promote new translations of Czech poetry books. A book of poetry by Petr Borkovec is to be published...
“A poem has become part of my life,” | 14. 11. 2013
...to sense where that book is heading, that is, sense what form it might ideally take. Petr Borkovec, for example, is very good at...
Czech poet J. H. Krchovský on Lyrikline | 21. 9. 2015
...recordings of poems from all over the world. The website also features work by Czech writers Petr Borkovec, Petr Hruška, Radek Malý, Kateřina Rudčenková,...
New centre for Czech literature in Prague | 9. 1. 2017
Diplomat, translator and journalist, Petr Janyška, was chosen as the director of the České literární centrum (Czech Literary Centre).The Czech Literary Centre was...
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...
The Czech Literary Centre to Organise its First Group Residency for Translators | 17. 9. 2022
...plays and essays: Radka Denemarková, Jaroslav Rudiš, Martin Šmaus, Jáchym Topol, Kateřina Tučková, Michal Viewegh and Petr Zelenka. She is actively involved in the...
The 2020 Premia Bohemica goes to the French translator Xavier Galmiche. | 10. 11. 2020
...as Josef Váchal and Bohuslav Reynek. The Czech literary critic and historian Professor Petr Bílek commented on Galmiche’s interpretations: “His take on the Czech...
The laureate of the 2019 Jaroslav Seifert Prize is Miroslav Petříček | 27. 9. 2019
...Zbyněk Hejda (1996) Antonín Brousek and Petr Kabeš (1995) Milan Kundera (1994) Bohumil Hrabal (1993) Josef Hiršal and Ivan Wernisch (1992) Jiří Kolář (1991)...
The Czech Literary Centre will be led by Martin Krafl | 14. 6. 2019
...Region Office and the governor, Petr Bendl. From 2004 to September 2007 he was a spokesperson for Czech Television. He was also in charge...
Anthology of European Poetry | 2. 2. 2019
...Petr Borkovec, Milan Děžinský, Kateřina Rudčenková, Jakub Řehák, Jonáš Hájek, Ondřej Hanus, Štěpán Nosek a Kamil Bouška. The book subtitled “Cestování po mladé evropské...
Czech Poetry in the British Journal Modern Poetry in Translation | 28. 7. 2020
...Milan Děžinský – 6 poems (trans. Nathan Fields) Sylva Fischerová – 2 poems (trans. Matthew Sweney and Sylva Fischerová) Petr Hruška – 5 poems...
Successful Czech Literary Centre residency applications announced | 4. 12. 2017
...here. The CLC travel committee: Ondřej Buddeus Jana Čeňková Viktor Debnár Iveta Gonzálezová Zuzana Jürgens Radim Kopáč Tomáš Kubíček Petr Minařík Lucie Zakopalová...
Jan Němec wins the European Union Prize for Literature for his novel Dějiny světla | 8. 10. 2014
...an expert jury: FFUK Professor Petr A. Bílek, poet, songwriter and Chairman of the Czech PEN Centre Jiří Dědeček, bookseller Jiří Seidl, editor Jan...
EU to be Guest of Honour at FIL Guadalajara 2023 with Czechia actively involved | 26. 11. 2023
...related to Kafka and the beauties of Czechia As part of the Czech Republic’s national presentation (29 November), Petr Lutter, Director of Oficina de...
Czech writers published in a new English-language magazine | 4. 12. 2018
...Hanus and Pavel Kolmačka, translated by Nathan Fields, as well as verses by Petr Hruška in Jonathan Bolton’s translation. Extracts of prose include passages...
Successful Czech Literary Centre residency applications announced | 17. 7. 2017
...Mgr. Viktor Debnár Mgr. Iveta Gonzálezová Mgr. Zuzana Jürgens, Ph.D. Mgr. Radim Kopáč Prof. PhDr. Tomáš Kubíček, Ph.D. Petr Minařík Mgr. Lucie Zakopalová...
Hrabal competition winners enjoyed their stay in Prague | 22. 5. 2014
...in Munich. In the autumn she will continue with her doctoral studies in Munich on Czech literature during the Protectorate. Petr Hora, a Czech...
Josef Škvorecký Award shortlist announced | 31. 8. 2016
...alone and lost in a world that has ceased to make sense. Daniel Petr: Straka na šibenici (The Magpie on the Gallows) Although the...
“The Poles are close to the Czechs,” | 10. 1. 2014
...– his Stalo se prvního září (It Happened on September 1st) is our most popular Slovak title. And then there is Petr Krištůfek, Pavel...
‘The Pilot and the Little Prince’ shortlisted for the UK Literacy Association Book Award | 26. 3. 2016
Petr Sís’s biography of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for children is nominated in the 7-11 category.The UKLA provides the following description of the book:...
Magnesia Litera nominations revealed | 22. 3. 2017
...(Řvi potichu, brácho) Tomáš Končinský, Barbora Klárová, Daniel Špaček & Petr Štěpán: Typo and Crust (Překlep a Škraloup) Tereza Vostradovská: Playful Science (Hravouka) Discovery...
Czech Literature in the Spanish Literary Magazine Quimera | 30. 7. 2021
...poetry including poems by Pavel Kolmačka (trans. Jorge Nicolás Lucero), Petr Borkovec (trans. Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio), Milan Děžinský (trans. Patricia Gonzalo de Jesús), Olga...
M.Szczygiel establishes a series of books by Czech authors | 20. 5. 2015
...For several years now Czechs have topped the list of the Poles’ favourite foreigners. Petr Janyška Director of the Czech Centre in Warsaw...
Lucie Faulerová Wins the EU Prize for Literature | 27. 5. 2021
...The Czech panel consisting of Pavel Mandys, Ivana Myšková, Petr A. Bílek, Vladimír Opatrný and Eva Klíčová, chose the novel entitled Smrtholka (Deathmaiden, published...
The Czech Republic at the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair | 7. 10. 2015
...5.0 B116. The English catalogue prepared for the fair, which includes interviews with authors Kateřina Tučková and Petr Hruška, can be downloaded here....
The Czech Literary Centre has published five new brochures in two languages | 11. 5. 2020
...Young Adults 2020. The authors of the selection and the original texts are Jana Čeňková, Petr Matoušek and Milena Šubrtová, and the brochure was...
Successful Czech Literary Centre Autumn 2018 residency applications announced | 27. 6. 2018
...Bulgaria   The CLC travel committee: Ondřej Buddeus Jana Čeňková Viktor Debnár Iveta Gonzálezová Zuzana Jürgens Radim Kopáč Tomáš Kubíček Petr Minařík Lucie Zakopalová...
Short-story anthology The Book of Prague published in Britain | 10. 12. 2023
...edited by Ivana Myšková and Jan Zikmund, who selected ten short stories by ten Czech writers: Simona Bohatá, Jan Zábrana, Marie Stryjová, Petr Borkovec,...
Magnesia Litera nominations announced | 4. 3. 2016
...(Malvern) Iva Pekárková: Pečená zebra (Mladá fronta) Daniel Petr: Straka na šibenici (Host) David Zábranský: Martin Juhás čili Československo (Premedia)   Poetry: Jiří Dynka:...
Successful Czech Literary Centre Summer and Autumn 2019 residency applications announced | 2. 5. 2019
...The CLC travel committee: Ondřej Buddeus Jana Čeňková Viktor Debnár Iveta Gonzálezová Zuzana Jürgens Radim Kopáč Tomáš Kubíček Petr Minařík Lucie Zakopalová  ...
Excerpts
Stories of Ordinary Madness
Petr (36) is just waking up – with a hangover. He is slow to rise. When he picks up his trousers from the...
To the Seaside
...over. Bára is looking forward to seeing R., Jitka to seeing Conker, Adéla to seeing her mum, Petr to seeing Klára. Johana is happy...
Puppet, Plum Pit, Plum, Plank and Back to Puppet
...  CHAPTER ONE, IN WHICH LITTLE PETR DOES NOT WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL, TELLS A WHITE LIE ABOUT BEING SICK, AND MEETS A...
Transport hinter die Ewigkeit
...durfte. Aber schon nach ein paar Schritten war klar, dass ich nicht allein bleiben würde. Matouš und Petr kamen mir hinterher, an der Tür...
Transport beyond Eternity
...Matouš and Petr had set out after me, caught up with me at the door to B class and for a while just walked...
Rybí krev
The mobile store stopped coming to us in the new year. Petr said nothing about it. Two days later he brought another big...
Bauernbarock
...mal einen Vater und eine Mutter, eine Großmutter, eine Urgroßmutter …“ „Sie wollte immer auf ein Gut mit viel Land“, sagte Frau Petrásková plötzlich...
L’équarrisseur, mademoiselle !
...Ça ne le dérange plus qu’hier soir Pét’a46 Diminutif de Petr. ait encore oublié de le faire basculer de son fauteuil sur son lit....
Die Reise in den Süden
...es ging um einen Mord. Am Ende des zweiten Aktes wurde Petr Quas erschossen, Vorstandsmitglied der Phoenix Finance Group“, sagte er ganz ruhig. „Und...
Ballet Dancers
A CLASSICS LESSON AND DREAMS   And one, and two, and three, and four. The répétiteur bashes away on the black Petrof, not...
Ask Dad
...It was probably an ictus. Take me to Dr Skála on the second floor. You know him, Petr Skála. He’s got the same first...
Reconstruction
...scene. No further information will be released while the investigation is ongoing,” announced police spokesperson Petr Štědrý this morning. The tragedy has left neighbours...
Tausende Plateaus
...reihenweise Männer, sondern nur Jarda Vít, Petr von unten und Robin und Venca Bráblík, alle mit Äxten, alle unterwegs zum Maulbeerbaum. – Mami! Mami!...
Der Dichter. Roman über Ivan Blatný
...die Schlesischen Lieder des Dichter Petr Bezruč, deren Distribution Pavel Reiman, Mitglied des Sekretariats des Zentralkomitees der KSČ wegen ihres angeblichen Antisemitismus persönlich abbrechen...
Piano Live
...from a young age. Petr was fascinated by power and she by luxury. The Icarian Union was, after all, the most productive power on...