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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 continents enjoy of the observer status. The winner of the award gets a prize of 35,000 Czech crowns.

The Czech Book Young Adult

It was preceded by a reader’s award, first granted in 2013. Its objective was to engage the national public in the voting on the best narrative novelty. The associated media involved included: the magazine ''Xantypa'', weekly ''

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'', ''K Revue'', electronic magazine ''Vaše literatura'' and the Portal of Czech Literature. In 2017, it was replaced by The Czech Book Young Adult.

Laureates

2012

* Vladimír Binar: Číňanova pěna, ; the French translation was published by the Paris publisher Non Lieu in 2014, the same year the translation to Bulgarian was published by the Sofia SONM publisher. The translation to Polish is being prepared.

2013

* The Czech Book Award:

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 ...

: Němci, * The Czech Book Reader’s Award:

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 ...

: Žítkovské bohyně, ed. Host,

2014

* The Czech Book Award:

Jan Němec 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 fil ...

: Dějiny světla, ed. Host, * The Czech Book Reader’s Award:

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 gre ...

, Proměny,

2015

* The Czech Book Award:

: Dějiny světla, ed. Host, * The Czech Book Reader’s Award: David Vaughan, Slyšte můj hlas,

2016

* The Czech Book Award: Markéta Baňková: Maličkost. Romance z času genetiky, ed. Argo, * The Czech Book Reader’s Award: Tomáš Šebek, Mise Afghánistán,

2017

* The Czech Book Award: Jiří Hájíček: Dešťová hůl, ed. Host, * The Czech Book Young Adult:

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 Happ ...

, Jezero, ed. Host,

2018

* The Czech Book Award and The Czech Book Young Adult: Alena Mornštajnová: Hana, ed. Host,

2019

* The Czech Book Award: Anna Cima: Probudím se na Šibuji, ed. Paseka, * The Czech Book Reader’s Award: Jan Štifter : Sběratel sněhu, ed. Vyšehrad,

2020

* The Czech Book Award: Bianca Bellová : ''Mona'', ed. Host, * The Czech Book Reader’s Award: Jana Poncrarová : ''Eugenie : Příběh české hoteliérky'', ed. Motto,

References

External links

Official website
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