The Lake by Czech writer Bellová wins international EBRD award

The Lake by Czech novelist Bianca Bellová, translated by Alex Zucker, has won the international EBRD Literature Prize. The book, which was published in Czech in 2016, follows the journey of a boy searching for his mother in a dystopian, post-Soviet milieu.

The other books on the shortlist were Mister N by Najwa Barakat and The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk. The EBRD prize comes with EUR 20,000.