Authors
Petr Hruška. Photo by Ondřej Lipár
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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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...
Pavel Kolmačka. Foto: Benjamin Kolmačka
Pavel Kolmačka
Pavel Kolmačka (1962) is a poet, writer and translator. After graduating from the Technical University he worked as an assistant at the...
Books
Nevlastní
Petr Hruška
An extraordinary mono-thematic collection by the most respected contemporary Czech poet. Petr Hruška has been publishing collections of poems for 20 years and...
Nejlepší české básně 2014
Petr Hruška
...a particular year and poetry in general. The 2014 edition is edited by poet and critic Petr Hruška and critic and editor Olga Stehlíková....
Mondom neked
Petr Hruška
This is the fifth collection of a poet who is also a literary scholar and historian, Petr Hruška (1964), one of the most...
Spatřil jsem svou tvář
Petr Hruška
Poems from the deck on which the struggle for humanity is fought Petr Hruška has been widely considered as one of the most...
Darmata
Petr Hruška
This is the fifth collection of a poet who is also a literary scholar and historian, Petr Hruška (1964), one of the most...
Darmata
Petr Hruška
This is the fifth collection of a poet who is also a literary scholar and historian, Petr Hruška (1964), one of the most...
Zelený svetr
Petr Hruška
Měsíce
Petr Hruška
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Translators & Czech studies specialists
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 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...