Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:20:24 +0200Andrej Gina: recalling the poetry and poverty of the old Romany settlementshttps://english.radio.cz/andrej-gina-recalling-poetry-and-poverty-old-romany-settlements-8627909© 2026 Radio Prague International In today's Czech Books we meet a writer who is a master of the short story. Andrej Gina, who won the Open Society Institute's Roma Literary Award in 2003, lives in the western Czech town of Rokycany. He writes in the Romany language spoken by generations of his ancestors from the rural Romany settlements of Eastern Slovakia. Andrej was still a small child when the family came to the Prague after the Second World War, leaving behind an ancient and rural world, where Roma life had changed little for centuries. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 Andrej Gina: recalling the poetry and poverty of the old Romany settlements https://english.radio.cz/andrej-gina-recalling-poetry-and-poverty-old-romany-settlements-8627909 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9