News | 12. 7. 2015
Václav Cílek’s ‘To Breathe With Birds’ one of The Guardian’s best holiday reads of 2015
To Breathe With Birds was published this year by University of Pennsylvania Press and translated by Evan W. Mellander.
News | 15. 6. 2015
Literarischer Lenz in Centrope literary festival
Czech authors Kateřina Rudčenková and Martin Reiner took part in the eighth annual festival in Vienna.
Awards | 29. 5. 2015
The Vilenica Festival award goes to Jáchym Topol
Jáchym Topol (1962) is a poet, prose writer, essayist and journalist.
News | 20. 5. 2015
M.Szczygiel establishes a series of books by Czech authors
The first to be published is Čapek’s The Absolute at Large.
News | 3. 5. 2015
European Literature Night 2015 — Celebrating Literature from Across the Continent
Kateřina Tučková, Jan Němec and Xavier Baumaxa will be featured at the events.
Awards | 8. 4. 2015
Two translations of Bohumil Hrabal on the 2015 Best Translated Book Award longlist
Harlequin’s Millions translated by Stacey Knecht and Rambling On: An Apprentice’s Guide to the Gift of the Gab translated by David Short.
Grants, scholarships... | 25. 2. 2015
The Czech Ministry of Culture has announced its supported translations for 2015
The Ministry has allocated 4 million crowns for 83 translations of Czech literature.
News | 9. 2. 2015
The Czech Ministry of Culture has published a new bilingual booklet on contemporary Czech literature
New Czech Fiction is being published in English and German for the fourth time.
Awards | 11. 11. 2014
Petr Sís wins award from The New York Times for ‘The Pilot and the Little Prince’
Sís’s latest book is one of the ten winners of the 2014 Best Illustrated Children’s Books Awards.
News | 4. 11. 2014
Czech prose in Words Without Borders
The November issue of Words Without Borders, guest edited by translator Alex Zucker, is on contemporary Czech prose.