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Karel Gott to get funeral with state honours as singer’s death is mourned at home and abroad
The legendary Czech singer and pop icon Karel Gott passed away on Tuesday at his home in Prague surrounded by his family. As tributes to the singer pour in from at home…
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Prague exhibition highlights Kundera’s relationship to translations
An exhibition now running in Prague puts the spotlight on translated works by the Brno-born writer Milan Kundera. The French citizen, who turned 90 this year, was…
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Karel Gott’s Mona Lisa to be put up for auction
As tributes to the late Czech singer Karel Gott pour in from at home and abroad following news of his death on Wednesday, the Kodl Art Gallery in Prague has announced it…
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Czech pop music legend Karel Gott dies at the age of 80
Karel Gott, the undisputed king of Czech pop music, has died at the age of 80. The singer succumbed to acute leukaemia with which he was diagnosed earlier this year. The…
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Czech music legend Vladimír Mišík releases new album
After a break of six years, Czech music legend Vladimír Mišík is back with a new album. The LP, called Jednou tě potkám or I’ll meet you one day, was released in September…
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Vojtěch Merunka – Developer of Interslavic language spoken in The Painted Bird
One of the most striking aspects of director Václav Marhoul’s new film The Painted Bird is the language spoken in it. The characters communicate in Interslavic, or…
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King’s Singers launch annual music festival Lípa Musica
The international music festival Lípa Musica got underway this week with a performance by the British vocal ensemble King’s Singers in the Hejnice Monastery in North…
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Cofounders of Laydeez do Comics’ Czech branch on gender, graphic novels, and pushing boundaries
‘Laydeez do Comics’ is an international organisation that promotes female comics artists and their work. I spoke with the co-founders of the Czech branch shortly after the…
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National Museum searching for early Czech sound recordings in US
Few people in the Czech Republic know that a significant chapter in the history of early Czech sound recordings was written by Czech immigrants in the United States. For…
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Peter Sis: In September 1989 I led fleeing East Germans through Malá Strana
Peter Sis’s On Flying and Other Dreams is one of the exhibitions of the year in Prague. It places in a fresh context five books focused on freedom by the US-based author…
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My Brno – Martin Reiner
Brno’s Martin Reiner is an award-winning poet and novelist. He also works closely with some of the Czech Republic’s other leading writers as head of the publishing house…
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55 years since Starci na chmelu popularised the film musical genre in Czechoslovakia
Released in 1964, Starci na chmelu is the first and perhaps most famous Czechoslovak film musical. The film’s songs were written by Vratislav Blažek and were recorded with…
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