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Franz Fühmann and the Sudetenland dreaming
Franz Fühmann (1922-1984) was one of East Germany’s most widely read writers. He is also one of few that have stood the test of time. He grew up in Czechoslovakia in…
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The Toymaker: scars of the Holocaust in Prague and Melbourne
At the end of 2015 the Australian novelist and essayist Liam Pieper was Prague’s first writer-in-residence through the UNESCO City of Literature programme. His two months…
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Inderjit Badhwar: Fight false news with its own venom
The Indian journalist Inderjit Badhwar has a reputation for pursuing stories with courage and determination. His investigative writing during the more than two decades he…
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Petra Hůlová looks at the world through the eyes of a prostitute
Ever since her award-winning debut novel All This Belongs to Me came out in 2002, Petra Hůlová has been a major voice in Czech fiction. The book went on to be translated…
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Robert McCrum: bringing out Havel and Kundera
In his twenty years as editor-in-chief of the publishers Faber and Faber, Robert McCrum introduced some of the best Czech writers, including Václav Havel, Milan Kundera…
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“Den poezie”: Poetry as a guide through the labyrinth of the world
For two weeks from November 12 the Czech Republic will be indulging in a feast of poetry with the 19th annual “Den poezie” poetry festival. It will include a wide variety…
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Michael O’Loughlin: Europe as an infinite circle whose centre is everywhere
For the Irish poet Michael O’Loughlin, Europe is not just a place on the map. The Europe of his poetry is a labyrinth of ideas, memories and languages. Its borders are…
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Martin Nekola: Czech Chicago and other untold stories of Czechs abroad
Czechs abroad have always been an integral part of the nation’s identity, but in the years of communism this bond was broken. The cultural and political life of Czech…
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Bohuslav Reynek: eternity in a drowned fly
As part of its Modern Czech Classics series, the Karolinum Press has just published a collection of poems by Bohuslav Reynek in English translation. The poet died in 1971…
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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk: Seeing and listening to the jungles of our human society
Eighty years ago this week, Czechoslovakia’s first president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk died at the age of eighty-seven. He had led the country from its independence in 1918…
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