Jiří Kratochvil (born 4 January 1940) is a Czech writer.
In 1991
Tom Stoppard Prize
The Tom Stoppard Prize () is a literary award given annually for outstanding primarily non-fiction work by a writer of Czech origin. It was established in 1983 and first awarded in 1984, to Eva Kantůrková for ''My Companions in the Bleak House''. ...
for his book ''Medvědí román'' ("A Bear's Novel"). In 1999 he was awarded the
Jaroslav Seifert Prize
The Jaroslav Seifert Prize (Czech: Cena Jaroslava Seiferta) is a prestigious Czech literary prize created by the Charta 77 Foundation in Stockholm in January 1986. This prize is named after the Nobel Prize–winning Czechoslovak writer, poet and j ...
.
Selected works
* ''Medvědí román'' (1990; "A Bear's Novel") (Winner of the 1991
Tom Stoppard Prize
The Tom Stoppard Prize () is a literary award given annually for outstanding primarily non-fiction work by a writer of Czech origin. It was established in 1983 and first awarded in 1984, to Eva Kantůrková for ''My Companions in the Bleak House''. ...
)
*''Uprostřed nocí zpěv'' (1992, 2010)
*''Avion'' (1995)
*''Siamský příběh'' (1996)
*''Nesmrtelný příběh'' (1997)
*''Noční tango'' (1999)
*''Urmedvěd'' (1999)
*
Truchlivý Bůh (2000) ("Mournful God")
*''Lady Carneval'' (2004)
*''Herec'' (2006)
*''
Slib'' (2009) ("The Promise")
*''Femme fatale'' (2010)
*''Dobrou noc, sladké sny'' (2012)
*''Alfa Centauri'' (2013)
*''Jízlivá potměšilost žití'' (2017)
*''Je suis Paris'' (2018)
*''Liška v dámu'' (2019)
References
1940 births
Writers from Brno
Czech male writers
Postmodern writers
Living people
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