Bernie Higgins

In this week's Czech Books we talk to Alexandra Büchler, a very important name in terms of Czech literature worldwide. She has been instrumental not only in translating…

Katerina Rudcenkova is one of the two Czech poets featured in a new book published by Arc publications, called "A Fine Line: New Poetry from Eastern and Central Europe…

North Bohemia is a strange part of the Czech Republic. It combines bleak industrial towns with striking natural beauty, and its people are also different. The area was…

The impossibly named Mnohacek Zgublacenko writes sung poems. He is one of the writers featured in a brand new anthology of Czech literature. This is a fantastic book of…

Jane Kirwan was born of Irish parents in England and has been based in Prague for several years. In this programme we will be look at her poetry from recent years, much of…

This week we meet Matthew Fitt, a Scottish writer, who is on a tour of the Czech Republic. He was born in Dundee and lived and worked in the Czech Republic, in the town of…

This week we look at India and the Czech Republic, in particular a new history of India, which was co-authored by our guest today, Dr Jan Filipsky. We'll open the…

Hello and welcome to Czech Books, which this week will be looking at the Czech icon and -in the words of Milan Kundera - the mother of Czech prose, Bozena Nemcova. We'd…

This week we visit Martin Machovec in his book-filled flat. Martin Machovec is a well-known literary critic, translator, editor and expert on the Czech underground scene…

In this week's programme we talk to Professor Peter Steiner, who wrote a fascinating book about Czech literature. He was born in Prague and left in 1968 to go to America…