Award-winning books — Magnesia Litera
Major awards
Annual book award which aims to promote and popularize high-quality literature and book production; the award has several categories.
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Selected winning books
Gott. A Czechoslovak Story
Pavel Klusák
 2022 Magnesia Litera – Book of the Year
Destruction
Stanislav Biler
 2022 Magnesia Litera – Prose
Coat and Handbag
Marka Míková, Galina Miklínová
 2022 Magnesia Litera – For Children and Youth
Three chapters
Daniel Hradecký
 2021 Magnesia Litera – Prose
Notes from the studio
Pavel Novotný
 2021 Magnesia Litera – Poetry
Jan Žižka: The Life and Times of the Hussite Warrior
Petr Čornej
 2020 Magnesia Litera – Book of the Year
Fox into a Lady
Jiří Kratochvil
 2020 Magnesia Litera – Prose
Night Reading
Ewald Murrer
 2020 Magnesia Litera – Poetry
Shakespeare's England. Portrait of the time
Martin Hilský
 2021 Magnesia Litera – Book of the Year
Hours of Lead
Radka Denemarková
 2019 Magnesia Litera – Book of the Year
The Theory of Strangeness
Pavla Horáková
 2019 Magnesia Litera – Prose
Pernambuco
Ivan Wernisch
 2019 Magnesia Litera – Poetry
Love in the Time of Global Climate Change
Josef Pánek
 2018 Magnesia Litera – Prose
Walking Around an Island
Milan Děžinský
 2018 Magnesia Litera – Poetry
Typo and Skim
Tomáš Končinský, Barbora Klárová
 2017 Magnesia Litera – For children and youth
Light in the Wound
Milan Ohnisko
 2017 Magnesia Litera – Poetry
The Lake
Bianca Bellová
 2017 Magnesia Litera – Book of the Year
Material Fatigue
Marek Šindelka
 2017 Magnesia Litera – Prose
Spiral sentences
Daniela Hodrová
 2016 Magnesia Litera – Book of the Year
Into Darkness
Anna Bolavá
 2016 Magnesia Litera – Prose
House of Inventions
Robin Král
 2016 Magnesia Litera – For children and youth
A City in One Stone
Ladislav Zedník
 2016 Magnesia Litera – Poetry
Distilled Spirit. Stories from the Banat
Matěj Hořava
 2015 Magnesia Litera – Discovery of the year
Mummy Mill
Petr Stančík
 2015 Magnesia Litera – Prose
The Poet
Martin Reiner
 2015 Magnesia Litera – Book of the Year
Why Paintings Don’t Need Names
Ondřej Horák, Jiří Franta
 2015 Magnesia Litera – For children and youth
Walking on Dunes
Kateřina Rudčenková
 2014 Magnesia Litera – Poetry
A True Story
Emil Hakl
 2014 Magnesia Litera – Prose
The Head in the Head
David Böhm, Ondřej Buddeus
 2014 Magnesia Litera – For children and youth
I was Alive!
Ivan Wernisch
 2013 Magnesia Litera – Publishing achievement
A Trap for Brigita
Jakub Řehák
 2013 Magnesia Litera – Poetry
The Žítková Goddesses
Kateřina Tučková
 2013 Magnesia Litera – Readers’ award
Fish Blood
Jiří Hájíček
 2013 Magnesia Litera – Book of the Year
Ceilings
Zuzana Brabcová
 2013 Magnesia Litera – Prose
The Great Adventures of Pepík Střecha
Pavel Čech
 2013 Magnesia Litera – For children and youth
Krooa krooa
Radek Fridrich
 2012 Magnesia Litera – Poetry
The Luxembourg Gardens
Michal Ajvaz
 2012 Magnesia Litera – Book of the Year
Stay Tuned
Marek Šindelka
 2012 Magnesia Litera – Prose
The Postman Wind: (what it brought and what it whispered to me)
Radek Malý
 2012 Magnesia Litera – For children and youth
Liar
Martin Ryšavý
 2011 Magnesia Litera – Prose
The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch
Kateřina Tučková
 2010 Magnesia Litera – Readers’ award
My Mad Century
Ivan Klíma
 2010 Magnesia Litera – Non-fiction
Naked
Iva Procházková
 2010 Magnesia Litera – For children and youth
Celebration
Ivan Matoušek
 2010 Magnesia Litera – Prose
To Disappear
Petra Soukupová
 2010 Magnesia Litera – Book of the Year
The Oddsockeaters
Pavel Šrut
 2009 Magnesia Litera – For children and youth
Thou Shalt Not Fear Death or The Story of Petr Lébl
Radka Denemarková
 2009 Magnesia Litera – Journalism
Journeys to Siberia
Martin Ryšavý
 2009 Magnesia Litera – Prose
The Quiet Companion
Pavel Göbl
 2009 Magnesia Litera – Discovery of the year
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Petr Sís
 2008 Magnesia Litera – Readers’ award
Puzzles
Petr Nikl
 2008 Magnesia Litera – For children and youth
The Cop
Petr Placák
 2008 Magnesia Litera – Journalism
Fuel to the Flames
Lubomír Martínek
 2008 Magnesia Litera – Prose
Puzzles
Petr Nikl
 2008 Magnesia Litera – Book of the Year
Mice Belong in Heaven
Iva Procházková
 2007 Magnesia Litera – For children and youth
A Weakness for Every Other Beach
David Zábranský
 2007 Magnesia Litera – Discovery of the year
Grandhotel
Jaroslav Rudiš
 2007 Magnesia Litera – Readers’ award
Money from Hitler
Radka Denemarková
 2007 Magnesia Litera – Prose
Tibet Through the Red Box
Petr Sís
 2006 Magnesia Litera – Readers’ award
Wind, Well-Travelled Verse
Radek Malý
 2006 Magnesia Litera – Poetry
Rustic Baroque
Jiří Hájíček
 2006 Magnesia Litera – Prose
So Far, So Good
Jan Novák
 2005 Magnesia Litera – Book of the Year
Uncle Kaich is Getting Married
Bogdan Trojak
 2005 Magnesia Litera – Poetry
Dodgeball
Michal Viewegh
 2005 Magnesia Litera – Readers’ award
Overwintering
Karel Šiktanc
 2004 Magnesia Litera – Poetry
Growing Wild
Antonín Bajaja
 2004 Magnesia Litera – Prose
All This Belongs to Me
Petra Hůlová
 2003 Magnesia Litera – Discovery of the year
Of Kids & Parents
Emil Hakl
 2003 Magnesia Litera – Prose
The Water Wizard
Miloš Urban
 2002 Magnesia Litera – Prose