Feb 10, 2014 | Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Tags: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, SlovakiaThe Visegrad Literary Residency Programme, established 2012 by the International Visegrad Fund, provides for a series of residency stays and literary events open to writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, essayists,...
Nov 22, 2013 | Czech Republic
Tags: Czech RepublicThe 2013 Czech State Prize for Translation has been awarded to the renowned translator and Renaissance man Vratislav Jiljí Slezák, a founding member of the Czech Literary Translators’ Guild and a laureate of its Josef Jungmann Translation Prize. He...
Oct 16, 2013 | Czech Republic
Tags: Czech RepublicThe Czech Literary Translators’ Guild has awarded its main annual translation prize (the Josef Jungmann prize) to the hispanist Anežka Charvátová for her translation of the voluminous apocalyptic novel 2666 by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño...
May 14, 2013 | Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Tags: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, SlovakiaEver since its creation shortly after the turn of the millennium, the BabelMatrix project has undergone several transformations, and it continues to grow. The aim of this site, which is dedicated to literary translation...
May 1, 2013 | Czech Republic
Tags: Czech RepublicNow in its twelfth year, Magnesia Litera is a prestigious Czech literary prize presented annually for the best books published in the previous year. Besides the overall prize, awards were presented in eight literary categories (prose, poetry,...
