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Literary roundup: Russian literature in prisons, on spies and some Czech honey

literalab wrote 1 week ago: The Washington Post has an amazing article about teaching Russian literature in prisons in Virginia. … more →

Tags: News, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Feature, Alex Zucker, Czech literature, Vladimir Mayakovsky, russian literature, Russian writers

European Literature Night 2013

literalab wrote 2 weeks ago: For a fifth year European Literature Night is taking place in cities throughout the continent. On Ma … more →

Tags: Literary Events, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Dino Buzzati, European Literature Night, Feature, Jacek Dehnel, James Joyce, London, Michał Witkowski

Literary roundup: Bykov and ‘Three Sisters’ in Berlin, Prague Writers’ Festival

literalab wrote 5 months ago: Russian literature, theater and art will be in the spotlight in Berlin at the RusImport festival fro … more →

Tags: News, Prague Writers' Festival, Berlin, Dmitry Bykov, Feature, Chekhov, Alex Zucker, The Devil's Workshop, Mary Heimann

Love and Truth

B wrote 6 months ago: Last weekend the fourth edition of the Central European Forum took place in a pleasantly relaxed and … more →

Tags: bratislava, Crisis, Stredoeurópske fórum, Zygmunt Bauman, György Konrad, Oksana Zabushko, Adam Michnik, Andrzej Stasiuk, Radka Denemarková

Jachym Topol & Marianna Placakova

Petr Horcicka wrote 6 months ago: Workers Vaclav Havel Library – Jachym Topol &  Marianna Placakova in the country house of … more →

Tags: ~ ★ !PEOPLE & PORTRAITS, Marianna Placakova, writer

Literary roundup: CE Forum, Vladimir Makinin and ©3 comments

literalab wrote 6 months ago: The Central European Forum takes place in Bratislava from November 15 to 18 and there are a host of … more →

Tags: News, hungary, Andrzej Stasiuk, Feature, Words Without Borders, Czech writers, Slovenian writers, Read Russia, Serbian writers Vladimir Arsenijević

Literary roundup: Looking for Czech translators and the devil’s many roles

literalab wrote 6 months ago: Translator Alex Zucker was in Prague to speak about his translation of Jáchym Topol’s novel The Devi … more →

Tags: News, Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon, subfeature, Julia Sherwood, Vladislav Vančura, Alex Zucker, Marketa Lazarova, Petra Procházková

Literary roundup: from Led Zeppelin to contemporary Czech fiction 4 comments

literalab wrote 6 months ago: Kateřina Tučková has been awarded the 2012 Josef Škvorecký Prize for her novel Žítkovské bohyně (The … more →

Tags: News, Michal Ajvaz, subfeature, Vladislav Vančura, Kateřina Tučková, Alex Zucker, Marketa Lazarova, William Burroughs, Czech Literature Portal

Czech writers being (re)discovered

literalab wrote 1 year ago: The varied world of Czech literature, past and present, contains a vast store of work virtually unkn … more →

Tags: Literary Events, Writers, best european fiction, Best European Fiction 2012, Bohumil Hrabal, Emil Hakl, Feature, Glorious Nemesis, I

Notes from underground: a look back at Czech samizdat

literalab wrote 1 year ago: Czech dissident publications are put on display in New York, helping to bring a dark, courageous cha … more →

Tags: Literary History, Sigmund Freud, Vaclav Havel, Feature, New York, Samizdat, Iván Klima, Ludvík Vaculík, Egon Bondy

'All This Belongs to Me' in New York

literalab wrote 1 year ago: Translator Alex Zucker will be presenting and reading from his translation of Petra Hůlová’s debut n … more →

Tags: Literary Events, translation, Feature, Vladislav Vančura, Alex Zucker, Marketa Lazarova, Prague Writer’s Festival, All This Belongs To Me, city sister silver

Jachym Topol, U Budyho 7.6. 2011

Petr Horcicka wrote 1 year ago: Jachym Topol, U Budyho 7.6. 2011. Prague. … more →

Literary map of Prague

literalab wrote 1 year ago: In a bid to obtain the status of a “UNESCO Creative City of Literature,” Prague’s Municipal Library … more →

Tags: Literary Events, Prague, kafka, Kundera, Laurent Binet, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, hhhh, subfeature

Gargling With Tar

1streading wrote 2 years ago: The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011 – Gargling with Tar Gargling with Tar is the second … more →

Tags: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011, gargling with tar

10 Overlooked Books in my TBR Pile17 comments

Kinna wrote 2 years ago: Everytime I go shopping for books to read in my TBR stack, I seem to overlook the titles listed belo … more →

Tags: Reading Projects, Women Writers, TBR, works in translation, Machado de Assis, Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Pär Lagerkvist, Jose Lezama Lima, Josef Skvorecky

Book 901 Jachym Topol - City Sister Silver

deucekindred wrote 2 years ago: I don’t know why but I’ve never really warmed to Czech writers , Kundera, Kafka ok I do … more →

Journalism or Surrealism?

lyndseymatthews wrote 5 years ago:   The author of the renowned Czech novel City Sister Silver, Jachym Topol, came into my Reporti … more →

Tags: School, Writers, Reporting the arts, Journalism, Class, Czechs, Topol, wildlife, NYU


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