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Simon Mawer’s Prague Spring: a complex love story amid the drama of 1968
When the novel The Glass Room by the British writer Simon Mawer was published in 2009 it was an instant hit, and it was no surprise when it was shortlisted for the Man…
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Czech Center chief Barbara Karpetová: If you commit yourself to the mission, New York will pay it…
When I visited New York in September I heard nothing but praise for the work of the city’s Czech Center in recent years. Much of the credit for this belongs to Barbara…
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Karel Gott releases new CD
Karel Gott is unquestionably one of the most successful figures in the history of Czech show business. Over the course of his career, spanning over six decades, he…
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Expat musician Geoff Tyson turns adversity into new song, album
Prague-based musician Geoff Tyson released his first music video in four years last month. “Spotlight” pays tribute to a handful of high-profile musicians who have…
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Czechoslovakia’s secret Cambridge students
You may be surprised to hear that one of the events to mark the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of Czechoslovakia was held at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge…
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Concrete administration building wins Czech architecture prize
David Kraus’s administration building in Strančice won this year’s annual Czech architecture award. The building was praised by an international jury for its regional…
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Gail Papp on Václav Havel among New York’s hippies – and under house arrest in communist…
Taking advantage of relative liberalisation at home, the young Václav Havel visited New York in the spring of 1968 for the US premiere of his second major play, The…
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Folk and chanson singer Radůza and her latest album Man with a White Dog
Folk and chanson singer Radůza, one of the brightest lights on the Czech music scene, has just released a new album titled Man with a White Dog.
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Prague Shakespeare Company production highlights ‘Masaryk in America’
A debut performance by Prague Shakespeare Company premieres tonight at the National Theatre’s Estates Theatre. Masaryk in America tells the story of the founding of…
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Prague’s Allstar Refjúdží Band celebrates decade of eclectic music at Archa Theatre
The Archa Theatre in Prague is renowned as a space where artists and companies from around the world meet and cooperate on projects ranging from contemporary dance…
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Martina Forman: “Miloš was a great, great man – great company”
Novelist and screenwriter Martina Forman settled in the United States in the 1990s after meeting her husband, the great film director Miloš Forman. When we spoke at her…
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The Pied Piper: a Czech version of a classic story that defies interpretation
Most Czechs know the story of the Pied Piper through a writer called Viktor Dyk. His short novel of the same name – Krysař in Czech – is a Czech classic, written on the…
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