Czech Republic

Jáchym Topol

Jáchym Topol was born in Prague in 1962. His first novel, Sestra (1994, Atlantis), was the only post-1989 work named one of the best 100 Czech books of the 20th century. The English-language translation,…...

Tomáš Weiss

Tomáš Weiss, born in 1966 in Prague, is a publisher and translator from Slovak. In 1998 he edited the volume Beaty, bigbeaty, breakbeaty: průvodce moderní hudbou 90. let, and in 2007…...

Karel Tichý

Hana Andronikova

Hana Andronikova is a widely-published Czech writer. She received the Magnesia Litera Award in 2002 for her first novel, Zvuk slunecnich hodin [The Sound of the Sundial] (2001) and went on to author the…...

Tera Fabiánová

Tera Fabiánová was born in 1930, and she is one of the most highly celebrated authors in the Czech Republic. Since the 1960s, she has published many groundbreaking poems and newspaper columns…...

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was one of the major German-language writers of the 20th century. He was born to middle-class Jewish parents in Prague. Trained as a lawyer, he worked in the insurance industry…...

Zdenka Becker

Zdenka Becker, playwright, was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in Austria for the last 30 years. She is a published playwright and author of numerous books. Zdenka has also worked as an actor,…...

Patrik Ouředník

Patrik Ourednik was born in Prague, and emigrated in 1984 to France, where he still lives. He is the author of eight books, including fiction, essays, and poems. He is also the Czech translator of novels,…...

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