Authors
Vaculik
Ludvík Vaculík
...focused on reporting; between 1965–1969, he worked in the weekly Literární noviny (subsequently renamed Literární listy and Listy). Following the ban of this magazine,...
fischerova
Sylva Fischerová
Sylva Fischerová (1963, Prague) is a Czech poet, writer and classical philologist. She was born in Prague, but she lived in Olomouc...
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...
soukupova
Petra Soukupová
Prose writer, screenwriter, author of books for adults and children. Winner of the Jiří Orten Award (2008) and the Magnesia Litera for...
Klima
Ivan Klíma
One of the most frequently translated Czech authors and recipient of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize (2002), the Magnesia Litera (2010), the...
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      stancik
      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,...
      ajvaz
      Michal Ajvaz
      ...In the 1990s he was an editor at the journal Literární noviny , and since 2003 he has worked at the Centre for Theoretical...
      Magdaléna Platzová. Foto: David Konečný
      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...
      marvan
      Lukáš Marvan
      Poet, novelist, editor, dramaturge, spokesperson for the fire service. He has lived in Sri Lanka and his poems have been translated into...
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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...
Books
Literární kronika první republiky
Petr Šámal
A chronicle of the love of reading, writing and publishing in the First Czechoslovak Republic. The Literary Chronicle of the First Republic...
O mráčkovi
Pavel Čech
Voliéry
Zuzana Brabcová
...Petr Bílek, Literární noviny “[Aviaries has] a rich style, figurative language, a combination of absolute introspection and reflections on external situations” — Josef Chuchma,...
O klíči
Pavel Čech
Sometimes children just do not feel like going to school. When a little curly boy with a school bag finds a lost...
Sny Eugena Brikciuse
Eugen Brikcius
Obcházení ostrova
Milan Děžinský
...reading; they will get under your skin only after repeated reading.” —Petr Bílek, Literární noviny “It is an existential testimony in casual attire; rather...
Nevlastní
Petr Hruška
...conveyed by Hruška in Not My Own isn’t a tragic message.” —Adéla Rozbořilová, Literární noviny About the author Petr Hruška (b. 1964) is a...
Města a ostrovy
Josef Kroutvor
Monthly features
Best Czech literary fiction 2016 | 30. 3. 2017
...Literární noviny “[Aviaries has] a rich style, figurative language, a combination of absolute introspection and reflections on external situations” — Josef Chuchma, Lidové noviny...
Modern Czech Literature Written by Women | 3. 8. 2016
...axe for the frozen sea within us.”5 From an interview with Denemarková for Literární.cz. Another important writer on the modern Czech literary scene is...
The Major European Book Fairs: Past and Present Trends | 18. 2. 2020
...in Lidové noviny, iDnes.cz, Hospodářské noviny, Literární noviny and Respekt.   From Frankfurt and Leipzig all the way to Jaipur The oldest book fairs...
Some half-forgotten treasures from the Czech literary corpus | 4. 1. 2016
...e.g. Vesna, Niva, Literární rozhledy, Rozpravy Aventina and Fronta, while editing occultist and spiritualist magazines e.g. Okultní a spiritistickou revue as well as bibliophile...
Eight Czech books from the first half of 2016 | 5. 7. 2016
...pearl. Praise “This sophisticated testimony of social exclusion oscillates between the diary genre, dream entries and fantasy prose.” — Petr Bílek, Literární noviny Links...
Resources
Literature after 1945
...periodicals is limited to Nový Život, Literární noviny and Host do domu, in the second half of the 1960s there seem to be dozens...
Grants & Residencies
...sasekfoundation@gmail.com www.sasekfoundation.eu   Czech Literary Fund (Ceský literární fond) The fund supports the publication of periodicals and books from the fields of literature, theatre,...
News
Let’s hope creative fervour doesn’t wane | 12. 4. 2010
Journalist Michal Procházka interviews the Dutch Bohemist Kees MercksThese days, Czech art theory grapples with how to study Czech culture in general....
I don’t even know how I lived then, | 18. 5. 2010
...as well as Hrabal’s short story anthology. You also published a theoretical book entitled Hrabalovy literární koláže (Hrabal’s Literary Collages) in Sweden. What are...
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...