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News | 11. 8. 2015

Three Czech books to be published in Filipino

The first will be a selection of poetry by Nobel Prize winning Czech poet Jaroslav Seifert.

News | 15. 7. 2015

Petr Bezruč in Asymptote

Three poems translated by Jacob A. Bennett appear in the July issue of the online journal.

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.

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.