Petr Maděra (born 10 July 1970) is a

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Early and personal life

Maděra was born on 10 July in

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. After graduating from a grammar school, he studied landscape engineering at the Agricultural College in

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. He specialised mainly in

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and

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. After that, he worked as an educator of the blind, and also as a landscape

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for the district authorities in Prague-East. At the end of the 1990s, he took part in editing the Weles magazine, an important platform for the most recent poets. Nowadays he is dealing with applied graphics and works as an

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of a number of

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-oriented magazines and publications. He lives with his wife and two sons in Prague.

Works

His work is characterized by very original poetics as far as both imagery and austere, distinctly polished expression are concerned. These qualities refer to the inspiration by

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's poetry. Together with the collections of poetry by Bogdan Trojak, Petr Hruška,

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, Pavel Kolmačka and J. H. Krchovský, Maděra's two highly praised Slívová, L.: Druhá polovina 90. let v české poezii 20. století se zaměřením na okruh básníků kolem časopisu Weles. Praha,

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2004. (A university thesis) poetry books, ''Krevel'' and ''Komorní hůrka'' have formed the horizon of recent Czech poetry. Has widely published in the following literary periodicals: Iniciály, Modrý květ, Weles, Host, Tvar, Texty, Sedmá generace etc.

Poetry

* ''Krevel'' (Host, 1997) * ''Komorní hůrka'' (Host, 2001)

Prose

* ''Černobílé rty'' (Protis, 2007) - a novella about "love in the darkness"

Participation in anthologies

* ''Holan 90'' * ''Almanach Pant'' * ''Cesty šírání'' * ''Přetržená nit'' * ''Skřípavá hudba vrat'' * ''Co si myslí andělíček'' * ''S Tebou sám - Antologie současné české milostné poezie'' * ''Básně pro děti – Jak se učil vítr číst'' * ''Antologie nové české literatury 1995-2004'' * ''Antologie české poezie'' * ''Báseň mého srdce / poezie jako výraz osobnosti / rukopisy, portréty, kréda současných českých básníků''

References and external links

Portal of Czech literature, in Czech and German

Online anthology of Czech poetry, in Czech

About the author in Czech press

* Čermáček, P.: Neprohráblými uhlíky slov. Sedmá generace 11, 2001, s. 18. * Čermáček, P.: Příběhy Petra Maděry. Psí víno 19, 2001, s. 25. * Fridrich, R.: Syrové maso básní P. Maděry. Pandora 1, 1997, s. 33. * Harák, I.: Tři z Hosta. Landek 4, 1998, s. 50–51. * Hrbáč, P. : Mimořádný básník. Tvar 7, 1997, s. 23. * Jareš, M.: Tři polohy současné české poezie. Tvar 4, 2002, s. 16–17. * Kotrla, P.: Podařilo se. Tvar 7, 1997, s. 23. * Kovářík, M.: Petr Maděra: Andělské chlebíčky na dalekou cestu. Tvar 20, 2001, s. 20–21. * Málková, I.: O nejmladší poezii české II. Ostrava, Scholaforum 1997, s. 12–13. * Mlejnek, J.: Libovolné efekty.

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209, 7. 9. 2001, s. 6. * Motýl, P.: Několik básnických knížek. In Margiana. Host 2, 1998, s. 83–88. * Staněk, J.: 90. léta v české poezii. Tvar 11, 2000, s. 12–13. {{DEFAULTSORT:Madera, Petr Czech poets Czech male poets Living people 1970 births People from Ostrov (Karlovy Vary District)