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The Czech Book
The Czech Book is a literary prize with international dimension, organized by an independent civic association based in Prague, Czech Republic. The Czech Centres of Madrid, Berlin, Paris, Vienna and Sofia cooperate in the organization of the project amongst other institutions. Since 2013, the project has been sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The Czech Book Award The jury, composed of seven academics, literary translators and booksellers, award every year a new narrative book, edited by a national publisher the previous year, with the Czech Book Award. The objective of the award is to promote contemporary narrative Czech literature not only in the country but also, and mainly, abroad; where the institution the “Global Observer” contributes to the diffusion of the laureates titles, reserved for foreign publishers interested in the translation of contemporary Czech writers. Over thirty publishing agencies coming from ten different countries and two conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prague, Czech Republic
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters. Prague is a political, cultural, and economic hub of central Europe, with a rich history and Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectures. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV (r. 1346–1378). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city played major roles in the Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history as the capital of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and the post-war Communist era. Prague is home to a number of well-known cultural attractions, many of which survived the violen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateřina Tučková
Kateřina Tučková (born 31 October 1980) is a Czech novelist and curator. She is best known as the author of ''Žítkovské bohyně'', a Czech bestseller translated into 16 languages. Life Tučková was born in Brno and spent her childhood in the South Moravian village of Moutnice. She moved with her mother to Kuřim when she was a teenager. Tučková studied at Gymnázium Kapitána Jaroše ( Captain Jaroš’s Gymnasium) and got an academic degree in the field of history of art, Czech language, and Czech literature at The Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. In 2004, she founded The ARSkontakt project, an annual exposition of artworks of her generation. As a curator, Tučková worked in Brno in a non-commercial gallery focused on young art; In 2014 she graduated from The Institute of Art History at Charles University in Prague. Since 2010 she has worked as a curator in Exhibition hall Chrudim. In 2015, Kateřina Tučková participated in the organization of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alena Mornštajnová
Alena Mornštajnová (born 24 June 1963 in Valašské Meziříčí) is a Czech writer and translator. Life and career She attended Ostrava University, where she studied English and Czech. She has published a series of acclaimed novels, starting with her debut novel ''Slepá mapa'' (''Blind Map'', 2013) which was nominated for the 2014 Czech Book Prize. Subsequent works include ''Hotýlek'' (''The Little Hotel'', 2015), ''Hana'' (2017), and ''Tiché roky'' (''Years of Silence'', 2019). ''Hana'' is her most successful work to date and has been translated into English and several other languages. It was nominated for the 2021 EBRD Book Prize. She has also written a book for children, ''Strašidýlko stráša'' (''Stráša the Little Ghost''). Mornštajnová lives in Valašské Meziříčí. Novels ''Hana'', Translated from the Czech by Julia and Peter Sherwood, Parthian 2020. References 1963 births Living people Czech writers Czech translators People from Valašsk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bianca Bellová
Bianca Bellová (born 1970) is a Czech writer. She was born in Prague. She has written a number of books: ''Sentimentální román'' (''Sentimental Novel'', 2009), ''Mrtvý muž'' (''Dead Man'', 2011), ''Celý den se nic nestane'' (''Nothing Happens All Day'', 2013), ''Jezero'' (''The Lake'', 2016), ''Mona'' (2019) and ''Tyhle fragmenty'' (''These Fragments'', 2021). ''Jezero'' won the top Czech literary award Magnesia Litera and the EU Prize for Literature The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL), established in 2009, is a European Union literary award. Its aim is to recognise outstanding new literary talents from all over Europe, to promote the circulation and translation of literature among ... in 2016 and has been translated in numerous languages. References Czech women novelists 21st-century Czech novelists Living people Writers from Prague 1970 births 21st-century Czech women writers {{Czech-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Hájíček
Jiří Hájíček (born 11 September 1967 in České Budějovice) is a contemporary South Bohemian Czech writer. He started writing poetry in the 1980s in a youth poetry programme hosted by Mirek Kovářík. He won the 2006 Magnesia Litera prize for prose with his novel ''Selský baroko''. In the European Society of Authors' 2013 Finnegan's List, Jaroslav Rudiš selected Hájíček's 2012 novel ''Rybí krev'' (''Fish Blood'') to be more widely translated into European languages. ''Rybí krev'' also won the Magnesia Litera Book of the Year for 2013. In 2016, his novel ''Zloději zelených koní'' was adapted into a film by Dan Wlodarczyk. Work *''Snídaně na refýži'' (''The Breakfast on Safety Island''), 1998 – collection of short stories *''Zloději zelených koní'' (''The Green Horse Hustlers''), 2001 – novel, published also in Hungarian in 2003. Filmed in 2016. *''Dobrodruzi hlavního proudu''(''The Mainstream Adventurers''), 2002 – novel *''Dřevěný nůž'' (''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomáš Šebek
Tomáš () is a Czech and Slovak given name, equivalent to the name Thomas. It may refer to: * Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), first President of Czechoslovakia * Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), Czech footwear entrepreneur * Tomáš Berdych (born 1985), Czech tennis player * Tomáš Cibulec (born 1978), Czech tennis player * Tomáš Dvořák (born 1972), Czech athlete * Tomáš Enge (born 1976), Czech motor racing driver * Tomáš Fleischmann (born 1984), Czech ice hockey player * Tomáš Kaberle (born 1978), Czech ice hockey player * Tomáš Kramný, (born 1973), Czech ice hockey player * Tomas Kalnoky (born 1980), Czech/American singer/guitarist * Tomáš Kratochvíl (born 1971), Czech race walker * Tomas Mezera (born 1958), Czech/Australian racing driver * Tomáš Rosický (born 1980), Czech football player * Tomáš Šmíd (born 1956), Czech tennis player * Tomáš Verner (born 1986), Czech figure skater * Tomáš Vokoun (born 1976), Czech ice hockey player * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markéta Baňková (author)
Markéta is a feminine Czech given name, equivalent to English Margaret. Notable people with the name include: * Markéta Hajdu (born 1974), Czech hammer thrower * Markéta Irglová (born 1988), Czech musician and actress *Markéta Jánská (born 1981), Czech model * Markéta Vondroušová (born 1999), Czech tennis player *Markéta Štroblová Markéta is a feminine Czech given name, equivalent to English Margaret. Notable people with the name include: *Markéta Hajdu (born 1974), Czech hammer thrower *Markéta Irglová (born 1988), Czech musician and actress *Markéta Jánská (born 19 ... (born 1988), Czech pornographic actress {{DEFAULTSORT:Marketa Czech feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Vaughan (author)
David Vaughan may refer to: * David Vaughan (HBC captain) (died ), Hudson's Bay Company captain * David Vaughan (architect) (–), Welsh architect, surveyor, land agent and diarist * David Vaughan (Wisconsin politician) (1822–1890), American farmer and politician * David Vaughan (British politician) (1873–1938), British Member of Parliament for Forest of Dean 1929–1931 * David Vaughan (dance archivist) (1924–2017), American archivist for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, dance writer, critic and scholar * David Vaughan (artist) (1944–2003), psychedelic artist * David Vaughan (golfer) (born 1948), Welsh professional golfer * David Vaughan (footballer) (born 1983), Welsh footballer who plays for Nantwich Town * David Vaughan (glaciologist) (1962–2023), climate scientist at the British Antarctic Survey * David Vaughan Icke (born 1953), English conspiracy theorist * David Vaughan (South Carolina politician) David Vaughan is an American businessman and politician who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Věra Nosková
Věra Nosková (born 9 April 1947) is a Czech writer, journalist and promoter of science and critical thinking. Life Nosková was born on 9 April 1947in Hroznětín, Czechoslovakia. Her parents moved to Strakonice soon after her birth. She grew up there as the oldest of three children and enrolled at the local grammar school. Soon after completing studies she left home, seeking independence. She experienced hardship in a variety of low-paid jobs (shop-fitter, labourer, railway level crossing gate operator, confectioner, cleaning lady, draughtswoman of the Architects´ Cooperative, Conservationists´ archive-keeper, employee of a public education organisation, waitress). In early 1970s she moved to Prague, married young scientist and gave birth to two sons. Before 1989, she attended correspondence class at the Secondary Pedagogical School and then worked at nursery school and as a night governess in a student dormitory at Haštalská street in Prague. After 1989, she started a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Němec (author)
Jan Němec (12 July 1936 – 18 March 2016) was a Czech filmmaker whose most important work dates from the 1960s. Film historian Peter Hames has described him as the "enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave." Biography Němec's career as a filmmaker started in the late 1950s when he attended FAMU. At that time, Czechoslovakia was a communist state subservient to the USSR, and artistic and public expression was subject to censorship and government review. However, thanks largely to the failure of purely propagandist cinema in the early 1950s and the presence of important and powerful people such as Jan Procházka within the Czechoslovak film industry, the 1960s led to an internationally acknowledged creative surge in Czechoslovak film that became known as the Czech New Wave, in which Němec played a part. Professional For graduation, Němec adapted a short story by Arnošt Lustig based on the author's experience of the Holocaust. Němec would return to Lustig's writing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakuba Katalpa
Tereza Jandová (born 1979), known by her pen name Jakuba Katalpa, is a Czech writer, primarily of novels. She is best known for her Czech Book Award-winning novel ''Němci'' (2012), which examines the history of the Sudetenland through a woman's relationship with her grandmother. Biography Jakuba Katalpa was born Tereza Jandová in 1979 in Plzeň, in what was then Czechoslovakia. She studied psychology, media studies, and Czech studies at Charles University in Prague, graduating in 2005. Jandová's first published work was the 2000 short story collection ''Krásné bolesti'' ("Lovely Pain"), followed by the collection ''Povídka beze jména'' ("Story Without a Name") in 2003. She subsequently began writing novels under the pen name Jakuba Katalpa. The first of these, the novella ''Je hlína k snědku?'' ("Can Mud Be Eaten?"), was published in 2006. It was shortlisted for the Magnesia Litera Discovery of the Year Award. She then wrote her first full-length novel, ''Hořké mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Centres
Czech Centres ( cs, Česká centra) is an organization of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic consisting of offices in 22 countries throughout three continents. It was established for the promotion of the Czech history, culture, language, tourism and trade abroad. It is considered an active instrument of foreign policy of the Czech Republic through public diplomacy. History The organisation dates back to its opening in 1949 as the Cultural and Information Centres (CIS) in Sofia and Warsaw. In the Eastern Bloc, further CIS offices were opened in Budapest (1953), Berlin (1955) and Bucharest (1981). In 1993, the organisation's name was changed from the Cultural and Information Centres to Czech Centres and the range of operations was expanded to encompass exports and tourism with new offices opened outside of Central and Eastern Europe. In 2006, Czech Centres opened its first office in Asia in Tokyo, Japan. In the same year, Czech Centres became a member of EU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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