Culture
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Czechomoravian Independent Musical Society No. 1, a.k.a. Čechomor
This week in Music Profile we bring you 20 years of Čechomor, a band that has revolutionised traditional West Slavic music and taken it to the world stage.
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“Patience with God” by Tomáš Halík hits the bookshelves worldwide
“Patience with God”, a new book by Tomáš Halík, a Catholic priest and a renowned Czech theologian, has been put out by the US publisher Doubleday and hit the bookshelves…
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Džian Baban & Vojtěch Mašek – Creators of an unusual Czech graphic novel about a man with a trunk
Comic books and graphic novels have increased greatly in popularity in the Czech Republic over the last ten years, which saw release of both mainstream and avant garde…
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Czech bishops criticize new translation of the Bible
Czech bishops have criticized a new translation of the Bible that came out last week. Entitled the Bible – a 21st century translation, its ambition is to present Biblical…
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Grave Matters
This week Czech Books is looking at the novel Mrchopěvci, or Gravelarks, the first novel by the hugely accomplished polymath and polyglot author Václav Pinkava, who wrote…
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Photographer Jiří Jírů on life behind the Iron Curtain, exile and ‘Photostroika’
Jiří Jírů developed a love for photography from his uncle, the avant-garde Czech photographer Václav Jírů, before studying the discipline in Brussels and working for US…
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Unique set of WWI photos goes on display at Prague Castle
A new exhibit at Prague Castle presents a unique and never before seen collection of photographs from the First World War. Taken by an anonymous Czech soldier between 1916…
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Max Brod bridging the gaps between Prague’s Germans and Czechs
Before the Second World War, the Czech capital was home to several ethnic groups – the Czechs, the Germans, and the Jews. Their co-existence in the modern era was often a…
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Humour in my films not uniquely British, says Happy-Go-Lucky director Mike Leigh
Sally Hawkins received a best actress award at the Golden Globes for her portrayal of a relentlessly positive school teacher in the British film Happy-Go-Lucky. Mike Leigh…
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Modern Czech translation of the Bible appears after 17 years of work
A new translation of the Bible into modern-day Czech hit the bookshelves on Wednesday. The New Testament was actually published a decade ago, though only now have…
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“Hooligans and swindlers”: the communist regime and the Plastic People
In the 1970s the communist authorities tolerated popular music as long as it was insipid, colourless and unoriginal – everything that the Czech psychedelic rock band The…
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World-renowned Czech author Kundera turns 80
Perhaps the best known Czech author in the world today, Milan Kundera, turns 80 this Wednesday. The reclusive author of works such as ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’…
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