Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:45:37 +0200https://english.radio.cz/pavol-rankov-a-slovak-novelist-found-czechs-translation-8550486© 2026 Radio Prague International When the Slovak writer Pavol Rankov published his novel “It Happened on September the First (or Whenever)” in 2009, it came just after the Slovak national football team had beaten the Czech Republic. In an enthusiastic review, one Czech critic suggested that the same had now happened in literature and that the Rankov’s literary achievement had put his Czech contemporaries to shame. When the author came to Prague earlier this week, David Vaughan took the opportunity to talk to him about a remarkable novel that speaks volumes about a part of the world that has seen too much history. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/rankov_pavol1.jpg?timestamp=1591185691 https://english.radio.cz/pavol-rankov-a-slovak-novelist-found-czechs-translation-8550486 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9