Viewegh - Literary agency

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Literary
Agency
the best choice of
contemporary fiction
from the Czech Republic
The agency specializes in contemporary Czech fiction;
its charge is the promotion of high-quality Czech writing
for publication abroad.
We represent over twenty Czech writers, all of whom are
established names on the domestic literary scene. They
include authors of best-selling works as well as holders of
prestigious literary awards. The majority of their books
have already been published abroad.
The range of writers we represent is very broad – from
Michal Viewegh, today‘s top-selling Czech writer, whose
books have been translated into twenty-two languages,
to certain younger authors whose success in an
international arena is still in the future (recent acquisitions
include David Zábranský and Jakuba Katalpa). We should
add that some authors have our representation for all their
works, others only for those we expect to be well received
abroad. Most of the books are works of prose for adult
readers; collections of poetry and books for children
feature only exceptionally.
 Highlighted New Adult Fiction 
Michal Viewegh
Angels of the Everyday / Andělé všedního dne
novella
publisher: Druhé město 2007
ISBN: 978-80-7227-256-3
124 pp
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andělé všedního dne
Perhaps no other contemporary Czech writer is as excellent a narrator as Michal Viewegh.
Jan Kábrt
druhé město
It is Tuesday, 5th September 2006, in the Nusle suburb of Prague. Fifty-two-year-old Karel has
entered the last day of his life, but so far no one knows this but the angels. The new novella by
Michal Viewegh springs a few surprises in its choice of protagonists: a young widow, a driving
instructor, a suicide, four angels. This is the story of a single day, by the end of which three human
destinies will have merged into one.
In the words of the author, the work is „a nimble tale of people, angels and dying ... a book about
us all. Our time is measured out, but we insist on behaving as though we were immortal“.
Viewegh has the largest readership of any contemporary writer in Czech, and this work is typical
in its inventiveness and the boldness of its composition.
awards
shortlisted for the Josef Škvorecký literary award 2007
Let’s not mince words: most of our missions are doomed to failure. What we saw yesterday in North-East China
was pretty dispiriting. Not to mention the fact that elsewhere on this wretched planet millions of people manage
to die without us... We can’t be everywhere, as Hachamel is given to saying. I sometimes wonder: who selects
that happy band whose final moments are graced by our solicitude? God? Or some UN selection board? Ha!
In a nutshell, those little acts of kindness we angels perform strike me as rather down to chance. They lack
system. Chance is God’s anonymous way of performing miracles, Hachamel tells me time and again. He won’t
have anything to do with questions. Our mission is not, he says, to ask questions, but to supply answers that
offer at least some satisfaction. We’re just messengers. Couriers of mercy.
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 Highlighted New Adult Fiction 
Jiří Kratochvil
Stories of the Town of Brno / Brněnské povídky
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publisher: Druhé město 2007
ISBN: 978-80-7227-261-7
332 pp
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Jiří Kratochvil´s Brno – fateful “genius loci”. Stories of the Town of Brno is without doubt one
of Jiří Kratochvil‘s creative peaks. We are immediately enthralled by the author´s obsession
with a story and its telling. And his stories are not just any old stories: in the unbelievable
grotesque somersaults of time and space their characters and their fates are interlaced
(at times in a downright comic, at others in a rough burlesque way, sometimes even in a manner
metaphysically dark and mysterious). The author is a Creator with a capital “C”, forming his
own worlds out of “substance our world is made of” in such a self-confident way and with
remarkable inventiveness and virtuosity. Yet he retains a humble knowledge of our limitations;
in the words of one of his heroes: “I know just one single thing for sure: we live in a world in which
we are frequent but inadvertent intermediators, intermediaries, just couriers of news illegible
and incomprehensible to us, just links in a chain we know nothing about.” It is no exaggeration
to say that with Stories of the Town of Brno Jiří Kratochvil has declared himself the Jorge Luis
Borges of Czech literature.
With surprise I opened the drawers of the kitchen cupboard and found there the very scissors that as a small boy I was not even
allowed to touch if I didn’t want my father to rap my knuckles; their blades regarded me with a hard brightness, and in there
with them was the great knife that my uncles in Luka borrowed for the slaughters.
More and more often on Burian Square I ran into people from those distant days of old. They have started to ride down here
and gather, who knows where they come from, and still I don’t understand what’s going on and what the point of it is (gradually
someone has been exchanging the local population for those once of Luka); I told Vera to run, get the hell out of here, this
business is mine and mine alone, it’s between me and the good lord!
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 Highlighted New Adult Fiction 
Stanislav Komárek
Mandarins / Mandaríni
novel
publisher: Host 2007
ISBN: 978-80-7291-247-3
356 pp
The long and the short of it is, Mandarins is a success.
Božena Správcová
The main character – the sinologist Jindřich Krottenbacher, Phd. – lives out the epoch-making
year 1989 (the fall of communism in Bohemia) and the post-revolutionary era up to 2001.
With this unsettled period in the background, the author interlaces the thrilling and in patches
both fanciful and ambiguous plot, in which make-believe is extremely difficult to distinguish
from reality. As with Komárek‘s earlier novels, this is about the nature of fate, the fragility of
human plans and life‘s ambitions in general. With symptomatic irony it portrays the “life
and institutions” of its place and time. Jindřich Krottenbacher, too, fails to win the game of chess
he has been playing with his destiny.
It was no easy task and it put me in mind of Baron Munchhausen wanting himself and his horse to be pulled by the hair from
the swamp. Europe had had plenty of experience of putting nationalization into practice and stifling the workings of pluralism,
but how could the whole process be reversed while it was still in motion? It is pretty difficult to transform by degrees, let’s say,
a moving crab into a tomcat: crabs and tomcats are both fully functioning beings, though the numerical relation between crabs
and tomcats kept as pets makes it plain which the human heart prefers; while a crab is useless in dry or freezing conditions it
does not need to be fed every day nor does it miaow. But how to transpose the outer body with the inner and perform a radical
reconstruction of the organs without bringing about the creature’s death, this is a problem which is borderline insoluble.
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 Highlighted New Adult Fiction 
Jiří Hájíček
Football Diaries / Fotbalové deníky
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novella
publisher: Host 2007
ISBN 978-80-7294-242-8
158 pp
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Here, Hájíček makes wonderful use of a real-life story
(…) opening up perfectly the work’s compact space by his
skilful depicting of the gloomy atmosphere of collapsing
relationships, a high degree of readability and the gift
of building up a strong story based on an intentionally
kitsch plot.
Michaela Hečková
Men come from the Mars, women originated on Venus – this opinion is quite common. Honza
Převorský is a man in his forties. He owns a good car, is a little bit overweight and football is his
passion. He believes two football elevens exist – one made up of men and the other of women.
They do battle with each other constantly and when it comes to harshness their fights can be
compared to the English league. In this book these two worlds meet and there is no winner.
In June 2006, just as the football World Cup is beginning in Germany, instead of journeying
around the German stadiums as originally planned, due to a strange coincidence Honza
finds himself in a car with a 19-year old girl. He has known her for just a week but he is much
closer to her than he thinks at first. Instead of German motorways, there are minor roads
in need of repair; instead of hotels, there are dusty, blue-collar lodging houses and sleepovers
on the airbed.
“I don’t know. I can’t remember anything substantial,“ he growled. But somewhere at the back of his head a crackling blackand-white film was running: Mum was shouting at Dad to get the hell out ... the toe of Franta Krompach’s football boot was
rammed into Honza’s backside and Franta was yelling at him that he’d wrecked the match for them and that they didn’t want
him in the team any more ... the other kids at school were making a church wedding for Honza and Jana from the second year,
calling out to the ‘bride and groom‘ until Jana ran away, and then he did, too ...
“Oh come on, surely you can remember something about when you were small!“
“Well, I do remember that Mum used to put this ointment on me that really stank. She covered me in it from head to toe. That
ointment stank like sleepers stink.“
“What do you mean by ‘sleepers‘?“
“You know, sleepers on railway lines.“
Simona burst out laughing.
“There’s nothing funny about it,“ Honza protested. “I used to stink like a little sleeper.“
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 Highlighted New Adult Fiction 
Martina Formanová
Three-Piece Swimsuit / Trojdílné plavky
novella
publisher: Eroika 2007
ISBN: 978-80-86337-67
184 pp
The themes the novella deals with are not particularly
tragic; at times, indeed, they are rather tragicomic. In spite
of their seeming unimportance, such stories and situations
often decide our entire lives. The book is without doubt
astute. And it is not only woman´s ingenuity that we find
here, but first and foremost ingenious womanliness. It is a
real pleasure to read.
Petr Kovařík
The sunny side of life is not all roses either.
This, at least, is the firm conviction of the heroines of the three interconnected short stories
in the latest book by Martina Formanová.
As the case may be, they are seeking their own version of the American dream, which for
them might seem to be within easy reach. Against a background of exclusive, charmed circles
in the high society of the Anglo-Saxon part of Connecticut, all they need to do is overcome their
own petty imperfections, doubts, and pasts. This aim sometimes proves as unattainable as
it would be from any other place on the planet.
Martina Formanová has written another fascinating novella on contemporary America.
As she let the whisky slip down her throat she had the sudden feeling that the whole box was moving to and fro along with her.
It was quite a good feeling, as if she were sitting on a multi-coloured swing. A little more of this swaying and reality would
disappear beneath her feet altogether, like the candyfloss stalls and the shooting ranges at the fair.
She had lost.
Which was as it should be.
She would go back to the world she knew well, spend her days getting by among the banalities and her evenings navigating her
way around her illusions.
In time it would probably lose its edge. It would float away, and real life, too, would retreat, becoming nothing more than a few
small, barely visible coloured dots. Her expectations would cease to be so hungry and avid. And she would become material.
Her hair would start to grey and she would not bother to dye it. She would find some kind of meaningful hobby. Perhaps she
would adopt a disabled orphan from Africa. Or get a job at the library. She would wear orthopaedic sandals and around her
neck a dried cob of corn as a symbol of peace.
Now she really did feel like crying.
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 Highlighted New Children´s Books 
Michal Viewegh
Short Fairy Tales for Tired Parents / Krátké pohádky
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publisher: Druhé město 2007
ISBN: 978-80-7227-262-4
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In his “fairy tales“ too Viewegh makes do with the everyday. Needing no princes, dragons nor freaks from
the universe, he gambles on well-observed real-life situations and an amusing literary game with two voices.
Jan Nejedlý
In the voluminous works of the most popular Czech writer we meet fairy tales for the first
time. He writes about four-year old Sára and her two-year old sister Bára, not forgetting their
Mummy and Daddy. In comparison with lengthy classical stories for children these stories have
the advantage of brevity – each can be read comfortably in ten minutes. In addition to this they
harbour comments of a more caustic nature – which will be valued by adults particularly. So it
could be rather difficult to say if this book is meant for kids in the first place, or for parents. With
these fairy-non-fairy tales both parents and children have a slice of the action; they are written
in such a way that nobody gets bored.
The book is generously illustrated.
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 Highlighted New Children´s Books 
Viola Fischerová
Dorotka and Ukšuk the Dog / O Dorotce a psovi Ukšukovi
children´s book
publisher: Meander 2007
ISBN: 978-80-86283-58-6
124 pp
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In the stories of Dorotka and Ukšuk the author, a renowned poet, describes the friendship of
a little girl and a dog, true fellowship that she herself – a great dog lover – first experienced as
an adult, when her desire to have a faithful doggy friend was the very same as when she was
small. „I have never stopped missing Uksuk,“ admits Viola Fischerová today. „And I felt much
more strongly about this book about him than about all my other books. I had lots of fun with
him, but also a peculiar understanding and love. And this is what my tale is about.“
At the same time the book is about the possibilities and frontiers of communication between
a child and a dog. As wise Ukšuk´s mother Tara says: „If we want to have a dog suitable for
a child, which is often demanded, we also need a child suitable for the dog – and this is not usually
required. And it is not just that the dog learns how to understand the kid, but also the other way
round. It stands to reason that otherwise it will never work.“
Viola Fischerová´s first book for children What the Boredom Told / Co vyprávěla Dlouhá chvíle
was awarded the prestigious Magnesia Litera literary prize and the Gold Ribbon of the Czech
section of IBBY for the most beautiful book of the year.
The book is generously illustrated.
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 Highlighted Backlist 
MICHAL
VIEWEGH
BÁJEČNÁ LÉTA
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Michal Viewegh
The Wonderful Years of Lousy Living / Báječná léta pod psa
novel
over 110,000 copies sold
publisher: first edition Československý spisovatel 1992, 6 editions altogether
ISBN: ISBN 80-7227-135-0
238 pp
the most popular Czech book of the 90‘s!
The author depicts with humorous hyperbole his parents´ life stories and also his own years of
adolescence. A bitter comedy about the life of a peculiar Czech family deals with rather an attractive
theme: the grey years of socialism are for numerous eyewitnesses also the happy years of their youth.
The story focuses on the difficulties of a father, an eccentric workaholic with a university degree,
whose efforts to protect his family without losing his own dignity leads to the threshold of insanity.
Viewegh‘s prose is outstandingly refreshing In the course of the same period, the extraordinarily gifted Kvido lives out his own troubles as
a writer of fiction.
reading, reacting to the world of recent
Czech history with an appealing and some- In 2002, Michal Viewegh published a sequel to this book under the title The Wonderful Years Under
times bizarre charm, caricatured noblesse Klaus /Báječná léta s Klausem.
film version premiered in 1997, among the top ten in box office receipts in the Czech Republic for
and a lot of wit.
the year 1997; winner of the Viewers‘ Prize at the 1997 Egyptian Film Festival held in Alexandria
Vladimír Novotný
awards
Jiří Orten Prize, 1993
foreign editions
German, Hungarian, Dutch, Hebrew, Croatian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Italian, Danish,
Polish and Belarussian
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Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia / Výchova dívek v Čechách
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In this brilliant snapshot of modernday Prague, with all its new freedoms,
Viewegh describes the „new millionaires“
of Czech society, the Prague mafiosi, and
the omnipresent expatriate Americans, to
name just a few of his memorable types of
characters.
Kathleen Hughes, Booklist
novel
over 90,000 copies sold
publisher: first edition Český spisovatel 1994, 4 edition altogether
ISBN: 80-7227-095-8
224 pp
A novel which can be read in at least four ways: as a suggestive story of the life tragedy of a 20-yearold girl; as a witty satire of the current Czech education system; as a „book about writing books“;
and finally also as an ironic love story.
The young teacher Oskar accepts an offer from the millionaire Král to give private lessons to his
daughter. Crackpot Beáta turns out to be a beautiful and thoughtful girl who is facing difficulties
with the whole world as well as herself. The life of a well-balanced teacher changes into the lunacy of
love, the hurricane of passion and breakneck dodging between lover, wife and 9-year-old daughter.
film version premiered in 1997, among the top fifteen in box office receipts in the Czech Republic
in 1997
awards
3rd place in the nation-wide survey for Book of the Year, 1994
English translation nominated for the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
foreign editions
English, Dutch, French, German, Croatian, Hebrew, Danish, Italian, Latvian, Serbian, Spanish,
Bulgarian, Slovenian, Finnish, Polish and Belarussian
Tourists on an Excursion / Účastníci zájezdu
novel
over 70,000 copies sold
publisher: first edition Petrov 1996, 4 editions altogether
ISBN: 8072272454
352 pp
A portrayal of the tragicomic and absurd fates of two dozen people temporarily changed into tourists
during their summer vacation on a bus trip to Italy. Though written in the third-person-singular,
the content is actually autobiographical. The author describes the misery and banality of human
relationships, using a sociologically vibrant sample of Czech tourists of various ages and from
various walks of life (pleasant but plain Jolana, her parents, whose relationship has over the years
become a mere stereotype, the gracefully ageing ladies Helga and Šarlota). The star is the writer
Max, who wants to take a rest from his erotic adventures among two male, homosexual friends.
Their rather silly guide, blonde beauty Pamela, decides to make friends of all these holidaymakers,
Viewegh’s irony and self-irony, the accuracy but the thing is, they are seeing each other for the first time.
of his description of human mediocrity and film version premiered in 2006, number one in box office receipts in the Czech Republic in 2006;
the various cramped situations sketch a
two awards at the New York movie festival Tribeca in 2006
picture containing a whole range of grotes- foreign editions
que and real heroes. Herein lies the appeal Polish, Croatian, Dutch, Italian and Slovenian
and power of this book.
rights sold to
Andrej Halada
Bulgaria
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MICHAL VIEWEGH
NAKLADATELSTVÍ PETROV
MICHAL VIEWEGH
Případ nevěrné Kláry
A Woman’s Novel contains much more
truth ‘about us’ than we think and maybe
even more than we would like to know.
Radim Kopáč
A Woman‘s Novel / Román pro ženy
novel
over 70,000 copies sold
publisher: Petrov 2001, 2005
ISBN: 80-7227-222-5
270 pp
Here the female narrator, a twenty-year-old editor who works on the fictive woman’s weekly
Vyrovnaná žena, candidly assesses her own love affairs. The story provides the author with space
for an ironic polemic on the archetypal character so essential to so-called ‘writing for women’ –
the ‘ideal man’.
In fact this is a slightly grotesque story of two women: the narrator Laura and her widowed mother,
the interpreter and translator Jana. Both women are forever seeking ‘the one’. Jana was once heavily
involved with a Czech guy, and ever since she has hated typical Czech men from the bottom of her
heart, and keeps looking for the foreigner of her dreams. Laura eventually falls in love with 40-year
Oliver. At the centre of the plot is the fact that Oliver is the very man who was once Laura‘s mother‘s
great love, in other words that prototype of all Czech men …
film version premiered in 2005, number one in box office receipts in the Czech Republic in 2005.
foreign editions
German, Hebrew, Croatian, Chinese, Slovenian, Polish, Italian and Hungarian
rights sold to
Serbia and Montenegro
The Case of Unfaithful Klára / Případ nevěrné Kláry
novel
over 60,000 copies sold
publisher: Petrov 2003
ISBN: 80-7227-154-7
256 pp
Michal Viewegh
The story begins in the office of private eye Denis Pravda, who specialises in shadowing unfaithful
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partners and is approached one day by popular writer Norbert Černý. The Case of Unfaithful Klára
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is not only an artfully formed self-reflecting parody on the life of a so-called successful author, but is
above all a cleverly composed tale of love, friendship, and jealousy. The story is set in faraway China
and is constructed around elements of the detective novel and a number of unexpected twists.
foreign editions
Italian, Danish, Polish and German
rights sold to
One of the reasons Michal Viewegh’s books Serbia and Montenegro and Slovenia
are so popular amongst readers is the fact
that his hand is very deft at depicting the
life and institutions we all know very well,
so that we can at least easily imagine them.
Josef Chuchma
Nakladatelství Petrov
Dodgeball / Vybíjená
michal viewegh
vybíjená
novel
over 65,000 copies sold
publisher: Petrov 2004
ISBN: 80-7227-191-1
214 pp
Over a generous time span, this book follows the varied lives of several high-school classmates,
from their teenage growing pains to their early forties. Connoisseurs of the work of the most popular
Czech author will find intact his familiar style (the slightly melancholic grotesque), in a tale which
deals with friendship, love and destiny, alcohol, beauty and ugliness, and above all with the sadness
that slowly penetrates the lives of the ageing characters.
awards
Magnesia Litera 2005 - Readers‘ award
foreign editions
It is high time the successor to Milan
Slovak, German, Serbian, Slovenian, Russian, Croatian and Bulgarian
Kundera‘s throne was declared - and it can
be no other than Michal Viewegh. Viewegh rights sold to
achieves a symbiosis of the substantial, the Poland, Hungary and Greece
important and the entertaining. His books
are intelligent yet easy to read; they are
comprehensive yet simple.
Thomas Brussig, Der Spiegel
nakladatelství petrov
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Irena Dousková
B. Proudew / Hrdý Budžes
Irena Dousková
Hrdý Budžes
N A K L A DAT E L S T V Í P E T R OV
By its very nature B. Proudew is a light,
relaxed, gentle and intelligent read which
will provoke the reader to tears of laughter
and nose-blows of nostalgia.
Bára Gregorová
over 20,000 copies sold
publisher: Hynek 1998, Petrov 2002
ISBN: 80-7227-132-6
168 pp
The story of this book is told by a young girl who is at once smart and naive. Helenka guides us
through the first years of the “government” of the communist president Husák, describing comic
as well as less amusing episodes and situations involving children and grown-ups in one town in
the course of a year. The short episodes create a compact story which reveals both the small
and greater tragedies of Helenka’s childhood, all presented with a comforting forgiveness.
In 2006, Irena Dousková published a free continuation of B. Proudew under the title Onegin was
a Rusky / Oněgin byl Rusák. The book became a bestseller immediately after publication.
foreign editions
Bulgarian, German, Hungarian and Polish
rights sold to
Slovenia
Martina Formanová
Composer of Scented Laundry / Skladatelka voňavého prádla
Without the truthful mirroring of self
the plot could barely have vaulted and
graduated, scarcely could its heroine have
walked her inward journey, and most
importantly, we would have struggled to
believe in her internal transformation.
Despite all the differences in our life
stories, thanks to her openness we become
conscious of that primordial, timehonoured universality in the wishes and
desires of all women. And we come to trust
her also because she is a non-flamboyant,
invigorating female writer.
Ivana Srbková
novella
over 25,000 copies sold
publisher: Petrov 2002, 2006
ISBN: 80-7227-121-0
212 pp
Martina Formanová’s first literary work – a work of autobiography – depicts her as a strong
personality who has managed, with unusual self-irony, broad-mindedness and wit, to give a fine
account of a life full of searching, struggle, victories and losses. On the one side there is the vain,
maybe slightly shallow Martina who loves to dream... about stars. The woman on the other side
is uncertain and desperately looking for the man who will give her the support she so much needs.
The atmosphere of Prague bohemianism and her long-lasting relationship with Czech pop-star
number one Karel Gott, the beginning of a new life in America and her marriage to the famous film
director Miloš Forman – these are the highlights of the book.
foreign editions
Serbian and Hungarian
Jakuba Katalpa
Is Soil to Be Eaten? / Je hlína k snědku?
novella
publisher: Paseka 2006
ISBN: 978-80-7185-816-1
112 pp
This first fruit by a young woman writer is written with exceptional strength of expression.
The narration of the main hero Nina cursorily depicts the history of her family, yet its focus is
on a present populated with a husband, lovers and a female lover. It is a story about searching for
a way to the self, and it is told with uncompromising openness. The sequence of short, dense
episodes allows random change in time and plot, creating contrasts, indicating parallels, evoking
atmosphere by suggestion. This short novella surprises by its range and depth and captivates by its
unusual subject matter and composition.
Possibly the most interesting Czech literary Against the background of today‘s Czech literature, this work about searching for one‘s own
debut of the year, this is a fascinating work wilderness in our rather polished world is very unusual.
awards
of erotic prose by a young pseudonymous
nominated for Magnesia Litera Award for Czech literature in the Newcomer of the Year category
female writer from western Bohemia.
(2007)
Vladimír Novotný
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David Zábranský
Any Beach but This / Slabost pro každou jinou pláž
(Notes on the Sea, Laughter and the Spirit of the Times / Poznámky k moři, smíchu a duchu doby)
novel
publisher: Argo 2006
ISBN: 80-7203-822-2
382 pp
What does the human dance look like in the ruins of a concentration camp? Is love the expression
of a desire to become the brothel-keeper of the whole world? Are we truly happy to relax on
the beach of democracy for all time? And why, when we look around ourselves, do we see nothing
but streams of cars?
The debut work of a young Czech author leaves the well-trodden paths of Czech prose far behind.
With elegance and humour, and in an original form - that of an amoral Bildungsroman which does
not develop - it projects the lives of characters who are deliberately stereotyped, who are symbols for
He writes of complicated matters with
insight, detachment, understanding, and a and victims of their culture; in so doing it works through a wide range of themes, including suffering
light, sorrowful irony which reminds me of and tourism, Auschwitz and good-heartedness, the end of days and make-up.
We take towels in our hands. Everything is amusing when set against Auschwitz - shame at one‘s
Milan Kundera. [...]
own bare behind vies with embarrassment at the poverty of one‘s thinking.
I consider Zábranský‘s debut to be an
extraordinary work of prose. Though not yet awards
thirty, he has composed a novel-cum-essay. Magnesia Litera Award for Czech literature in the Newcomer of the Year category (2007)
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NAKLADATELST VÍ PETROV
(…) a lovely hymn to his hometown. (…)
Prague’s “other city” becomes for Ajvaz
an emblem of all the worlds we are blind to
because we are caught in our own habits
of seeing.
Jonathan Bolton, Context
Michal Ajvaz
The Other City / Druhé město
novel
publisher: Mladá fronta 1993, Petrov 2005
ISBN: 80-7227-231-4
172 pp
This distinctive novel is set in various shadowy settings about Prague, such as the belfry of
St. Nicholas’s church, Petřín hill, a Malá strana café, Café Slavia, and the large Klementinum
historical library. These are the places where a lonely young man walks at the ghostly hours of night
and where flashes of the symbolic Other City emerge mingled with the reality of old Prague. All this
is veiled in a dreamy atmosphere, the mysterious contents of which draw the narrator like a moth
to a flame.
foreign editions
Russian, Polish, Hungarian
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U.S.A.
Antonín Bajaja
Growing Wild / Zvlčení
(A Tale of Mystery and Imagination about Wolves, Humans, and Phenomena / Romaneto o vlcích,
lidech a úkazech)
novel
publisher: Petrov 2003
ISBN: 80-7227-156-3
266 pp
Growing Wild has an elaborate composition, which is used to great effect in the build-up of
ANTONÍN BAJAJA
Zvlčení
(romaneto o vlcích, lidech a úkazech)
excitement that reaches its climax in a dramatic denouement. The first twelve chapters describe two
regularly rotating story lines, where the odd ones concentrate on a human family, the even ones on
a family of wolves. This is also reflected in the chapter titles: Humans, and Wolves. The first chapter,
opening with the sentence “Yesterday it was exactly two years since it happened”, lets the reader
Growing Wild is a novel about man faceknow that the tragic event in question will be described in retrospect. The author works throughout
to-face with wolf, and wolf face-to-face with the book with parallels and reflections at various levels of the text (time, space, themes, situations,
man; it is also a novel about time, about
characters), and the story is often interrupted by internal monologues of the characters from
gods, about God… (…) An extraordinary
the book, displaying the richness of their thoughts, emotions, memories, and connections with
work!
others.
Jan Schneider
The lines of narration (wolves, people) intersect in the last three chapters, when the two worlds
meet. Here, the author escalates the tempo of the narration by means of rapid switching from one
to the other.
awards
Magnesia Litera award for prose, 2004;
foreign editions
Belarussian and Hungarian
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JIŘÍ KRATO CHVIL
NESMRTELNÝ PŘÍBĚH
Jiří Kratochvil
Immortal Story / Nesmrtelný příběh
novel
publisher: Atlantis 1997, Petrov 2005
ISBN: 80-7227-236-5
214 pp
The major part of this work, the complete name of which is Immortal Story or the Life of Sonja
Trocky-Sammler or the Carnival Novel, is told by the eponymous Sonja, daughter of a Russian
Orthodox priest and a German woman, who was born in the first hours of the 20th century.
A major part of the narrative is the story she tells of a never-realised meeting with somebody,
somebody who continues to seek her for the rest of her life, in the form of various animals. Her
abilities and talents are extraordinary and her mission is anything but commonplace. She always
gets very close to the great events and figures of history. Her apocrypha on the past century could
Kratochvil’s works of prose are the greatest be read as the memoirs of a lunatic – but Sonja is no fool. We begin to feel that it is the world that
has gone mad...
events in Czech literature since 1989.
awards
Milan Kundera
Karel Čapek Award, 1998
foreign editions
German, Slovenian, Russian
rights sold to
Portugal and Croatia
JI¤Í KRATOCHVIL
NESMRTELNÝ
PŘÍBĚH
Kratochvilův román, to je závratná jízda pouťovým toboganem
československých dějin.
Berliener Zeitung
Kratochvil obohacuje pábitelství Bohumila Hrabala
o grobiánství Güntera Grasse a kombinuje ironii Milana
Kundery se zasněností Bruna Schulze.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Německý překlad Nesmrtelného příběhu měl v Berlíně překvapivý
ohlas: inspiroval německou spisovatelku Irinu Liebmann
k napsání románu Die freien Frauen (Berlin Verlag, 2004), v němž
znova ožívají české postavy Nesmrtelného příběhu a tajemné město
Brno.
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Kratochvil´s Actor (…) ranks among the
best to appear recently on the Czech book
market.
Vlastimil Čech
novel
publisher: Druhé město 2006
ISBN: 80-7227-248-9
312 pp
What is the relation between identity and an actor‘s talent? Who are those people who make
a living being whoever? Mikuláš Mazel, the protagonist of Jiří Kratochvil‘s latest novel, has
the gift of a „perfect acting talent“. He takes the most varied and obscure acting engagements,
and the picaresque storyline drops him in some weird and wonderful places. He comes to
the gradual realisation that his talent is more of a curse than an advantage.
We all have the gift of some degree of acting talent; it is this which enables us to „integrate ourselves
into the world of people“ from our very first days. There may come a time, however, when this ability
transforms itself into a fight for our very soul.
awards
nomination for Magnesia Litera award for Czech Literature in the Prose category for 2007
rights sold to
Gallimard, France
Jiří Hájíček Selský baroko
Jiří Hájíček
Rustic Baroque / Selský baroko
V beletrii posledních let se najde jen
málo knih, které by se zabývaly naší
nedávnou minulostí, a není snad jediné,
jejímž tématem by bylo období kolektivizace vesnice v 50. letech. V novele
Selský baroko se o takovou historickou
reflexi pokouší Jiří Hájíček (1967), autor
generace, která vyrůstala dávno po tomto
temném období selských procesů.
Příběh začíná zdánlivě nenápadně
jednoho horkého léta v zámeckém
parku v Třeboni. Pavel Straňanský
je genealog, který sestavuje v archivech
rodokmeny, většinou pro zámožné
emigranty, kteří ve staré vlasti hledají
své kořeny. Jedna neobvyklá zakázka
jej však přivádí do historie poměrně
nedávné a před Pavlem náhle vyvstává
příběh vesnické krásky Rozálie Zandlové
a sedláků z obce Tomašice.
Osamělý hledač putuje po jihočeském
venkově, aby ze zápisů starých kronik
a výpovědí pamětníků postupně rekonstruoval příběh udání, které v 50. letech
přivedlo několik sedláků do vězení.
Vše se však stále více zamotává a Pavel
zjišťuje, že jeho téměř detektivní pátrání,
které jej přivádí až do žhavé současnosti,
namísto jasných odpovědí vyvolává jen
další otázky. A ty zůstávají vlastně stále
stejné, ať se jedná o příběh starý
padesát let nebo několik týdnů. Jak by
měl člověk zacházet s vinou, pomstou,
odpuštěním? Jakou moc má nad námi
minulost?
Pro čtenáře, kteří znají Hájíčkovy dřívější
knihy, bude Selský baroko možná
překvapením. Autor zde do značné míry
opouští svůj lyrický styl a podává až
drsně dokumentární zprávu o jednom
lidském osudu.
novel
publisher: Host 2005
ISBN: 80-7294-164-X
176 pp
The principal theme is collectivization in the Czech villages of the 1950s, dark period in the life of
the country-dweller. To all appearances the story has unremarkable beginnings one hot summer –
Pavel Straňanský is a genealogist who works in the archive putting together family trees, mostly for
Jiří Hájíček
wealthy expatriates searching for their roots in the old country. A somewhat unusual commission
draws him into a relatively recent story which sparks his attention – that of village beauty Rozálie
Selský baroko
Zandlová and the farmers of Tomašice village.
This solitary seeker wanders around in the South Bohemian countryside, his task to reconstruct
from the records of old chronicles and the testimonies of surviving witnesses the story of a statement
Jiří Hájíček‘s Rustic Baroque is a work of
admirable intensity; (…) not for a moment which landed several farmers in prison. But the threads of the story become more and more tightly
entangled, and Pavel discovers that all his detective work, which brings him right into the present,
does his tale fail to convince. We might
uncovers no clear answers, indeed only further questions. And these questions are always the same,
even say that this work is one of the most
regardless of whether they relate to a story fifty years or just a few weeks old. How should we handle
important events in Czech literature in
our guilt, our urge to take revenge, forgiveness? And what power does the past work over us?
2005.
awards
Radim Kopáč
Magnesia Litera award for Czech Literature in the Prose category for 2006; 3rd prize in the Book
of the Year for 2006
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Hungary, Italy and Bulgaria
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Radka Denemarková
Money from Hitler / Peníze od Hitlera
The energetic narration of Radka
Denemarková, inspired by proven
traditions and authorial models like LouisFerdinand Céline and Thomas Bernhard,
has a further advantage: not only is the
reader devoured and paralyzed by a
cascade of bitter truths, but the work evokes
in them a harsh awareness (…) There is no
parallel to such literary fiction in the Czech
literary milieu. And this may also apply in a
broader Central-European context.
Joanna Derdowska
novel
publisher: Host 2006
ISBN: 80-7294-185-2
248 pp
Radka Denemarková´s second work of prose is again a story somewhat absurd in the darkness of
the world it depicts, a collection of curios in which the story of Gita Lauschmanová is unfolded on
two time scales (1945 and 2005). The girl Gita leaves the concentration camp to the realisation that
in fact there is nowhere for her to return to, and that the oppression and savagery are far from over;
the elderly Gita Lauschmanová wishes to exact justice as her life draws to its close.
rights sold to
Poland
award
Magnesia Litera for Czech Literature in the Prose category for 2007
Who‘s That Banging on the Door? / A já pořád kdo to tluče
novel
publisher: Petrov 2005
ISBN: 80-7227-219-5
178 pp
This eccentric, grotesque, and thrilling story of a murder and a fatal connection between a man and
a woman who are both drowning in the misgivings of their solitude might have happened anywhere.
Its theatre setting provides a unique space for the expression of deep passions and hysteria.
Radka
The theatre is a stage on which the curtains will draw for ever – for the energetic actors, the passive
Denemarková
voyeurs, the backstage manipulators. There is no possibility of actors stepping in to play our
A já pořád
kdo to tluče
lives. We are not acting in a one-man-show. Our past and our distress cannot be stripped off like
a costume. Even the smallest ‘role’ of one’s life should be played with the utmost conscientiousness.
Visiting director Buch has only a strange suspicion that this is so, but writer and dramatist Birgit
knows it very well. A truly mature and ripe first literary fruit, which contains a convoluted parable:
This is a successful work of Czech literature a dark image of mankind, with a demonic ring of events that cannot be broken.
The book is being made into a feature film.
for more demanding readers.
Jan Šícha
foreign editions
Hungarian
rights sold to
Bulgaria
Nakladatelství
Petrov
Pavel Brycz
The Patriarchy Lost its Glory Long Ago / Patriarchátu dávno
zašlá sláva
novel
publisher: Host 2003
ISBN: 80-7294-106-2
312 pp
This is the grotesque saga of the Ukrainian Berezinka family, who leave their impoverished
homeland and its old Orthodox certainties in favour of the illusions and cruel realities of life in
a western civilization. We move around in space and time with patriarch and „man of God“ Jefim
and his sons, grandsons and great-grandsons, encountering repeatedly the events of human destiny
and its passing, tragi-comic characters and savage nightmares.
awards
The author attempts to revive the patterns
State Prize for Literature, 2004
practiced by a Galsworthy or a Tolstoy,
rights sold to
in the process of which he – unlike the
storytellers mentioned above – shatters the Slovenia, Poland and Hungary
structure of the novel´s narrative stream by
inserting bizarre episodes and banalities.
Jan Suk
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Michal Ajvaz
The Other City / Druhé město
Turquoise Eagle / Tyrkysový orel
Return of the Old Komodo Dragon / Návrat
starého varana
Golden Age / Zlatý věk
Empty Streets / Prázdné ulice
Antonín Bajaja
Duels / Duely
Growing Wild – A Tale of Mystery and Imagination about Wolves, Humans, and Phenomena /
Zvlčení – Romaneto o vlcích, lidech a úkazech
Alexandra Berková
The Book with the Red Cover / Knížka s červeným obalem
Magoria: or a Tale of Great Love / Magorie aneb
Příběh velké lásky
The Sufferings of a Devoted Scoundrel / Utrpení
oddaného Všiváka
Dark Love / Temná láska
A Banal Story / Banální příběh
Pavel Brycz
The Patriarchy Lost its Glory Long Ago / Patriarchátu dávno zašlá sláva
Pass Back to the Goalie / Malá domů
Gabriela´s Magic World / Kouzelný svět Gabriely
Martina Formanová
Composer of Scented Laundry / Skladatelka
voňavého prádla
Three-Piece Swimsuit / Trojdílné plavky
Jiří Hájíček
The Green Horse Rustlers / Zloději zelených
koní
Mainstream Adventurers / Dobrodruzi hlavního
proudu
The Wooden Knife / Dřevěný nůž
Rustic Baroque / Selský baroko
Football Diaries / Fotbalové deníky
Jakuba Katalpa
new author in the agency list
Is Soil to be Eaten? / Je hlína k snědku?
Irena Dousková
Goldstein Writes to his Daughter / Goldstein
píše dceři
B. Proudew / Hrdý Budžes
Someone With a Knife / Někdo s nožem
Doctor Kott Wonders / Doktor Kott přemítá
Why This Night Is Different / Čím se liší tato
noc
Onegin was a Rusky / Oněgin byl Rusák
Zdena Koláček
Once Upon a Time in the East (The Best of
Zdena Koláček) / Tenkrát na Východě (The Best
of Zdena Koláček)
Martin Fahrner
Steiner or What We Did / Steiner aneb Co jsme
dělali
The Folly of the Doctor of Winnetouology /
Pošetilost doktora vinnetouologie
Daniela Fischerová
Happy Ending / Happy end
Viola Fischerová
Requiem for Pavel Buksa / Zádušní básně za
Pavla Buksu
Old Women’s Hour / Babí hodina
Like a Feather / Jak pápěří
Grown Proximity / Odrostlá blízkost
Wild Track of Homes / Divoká dráha domovů
Mother Solitude / Matečná samota
Now / Nyní
What the Boredom Told / Co vyprávěla Dlouhá
chvíle
Preliminary Ending / Předkonec
Dorotka and Ukšuk the Dog / O Dorotce a psovi
Ukšukovi
Sand Child /Písečné dítě
Stanislav Komárek
The Opšlstis Foundation / Opšlstisova nadace
The Little Black House / Černý domeček
Mandarins / Mandaríni
Jiří Kratochvil
A Bear’s Novel / Medvědí román
Singing in the Middle of the Night / Uprostřed
nocí zpěv
Orfeus from Koenig / Orfeus z Kénigu
O Postmodern, My Love / Má lásko, postmoderno
Avion / Avion
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Siamese Story / Siamský příběh
Immortal Story / Nesmrtelný příběh
Nocturnal Tango / Noční tango
Ur-Bear / Urmedvěd
Despondent God / Truchlivý Bůh
Declaration of Love to/from the Nature of the
Story / Vyznání příběhovosti
Nostalgic and Ironic Brno / Brno nostalgické i
ironické
Lie Down, Beast! / Lehni, bestie!
Lady Carnival / Lady Carneval
Actor / Herec
Stories of the Town of Brno / Brněnské povídky
Roman Ludva
Riders Under a Parasol / Jezdci pod slunečníkem
Wall of the Heart / Stěna srdce
The Last Firework / Poslední ohňostroj
Marian Palla
With a Hair on One´s Tongue or the Hundred
Cases of Detective Wlapr / S chloupkem na
jazyku aneb Sto případů detektiva Wlapra
Maud the Cleaner’s Diary / Zápisky uklízečky
Maud‘
Selected Bits of Marian Palla / Vybrané kousky z
Mariana Pally
Sweep my Chest / Zameť mou hruď
Warm Greaves / Teplé škvarky
Jaroslav Pížl
Book Collectors / Sběratelé knih
Michal Viewegh
Opinions on a Murder / Názory na vraždu
The Wonderful Years of Lousy Living / Báječná
léta pod psa
Thoughts of a Loving Reader / Nápady laskavého čtenáře
Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia / Výchova dívek
v Čechách
Tourists on an Excursion / Účastníci zájezdu
Notes On Fatherly Love / Zapisovatelé otcovský
lásky
Tales of Marriage and Sex / Povídky o manželství a o sexu
More Thoughts of a Loving Reader / Nové
nápady laskavého čtenáře
Smorgasbords or: What We´re Like / Švédské
stoly aneb Jací jsme
A Woman‘s Novel / Román pro ženy
The Wonderful Years Under Klaus / Báječná
léta s Klausem
The Case of Unfaithful Klára / Případ nevěrné
Kláry
Serving Two Masters / Na dvou židlích
Dodgeball / Vybíjená
The Creative Writing Lesson / Lekce tvůrčího
psaní
A Wonderful Year – A Diary for 2005 / Báječný
rok – Deník 2005
Angels of the Everyday / Andělé všedního dne
Short Fairy Tales for Tired Parents / Krátké
pohádky pro unavené rodiče
David Zábranský
new author in the agency list
Any Beach But This (Notes on the Sea, Laughter
and the Spirit of the Times) / Slabost pro každou
jinou pláž (Poznámky k moři, smíchu a duchu
doby)
Tomáš Přidal
Coke Nut / Kokosová opice
Voices in a Biscuit / Hlasy v sušence
Přemysl Rut
In My Fathermother‘s Bed / V mámově postýlce
A Sleepwalker‘s Guide to Prague / Náměsíčný
průvodce Prahou
Grisly Bohemia, Terrifying Moravia / Strašlivé
Čechy, děsná Morava
Bohuslav Vaněk-Úvalský
Zabrisky / Zabrisky
The Last Bourbon / Poslední bourbon
Potatoes Were the Oranges of My Childhood /
Brambora byla pomeranč mého dětství
Women, Havel, Hygiene / Ženy, Havel, hygiena
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Michal Ajvaz
born 1949
novelist, poet, essayist and translator
author of 6 works of fiction
Jaroslav Seifert Prize (2005) for his latest novel Empty Streets / Prázdné ulice (also
nominated for the State Prize for Literature in the same year)
published in Russia, Poland, France and Hungary, rights sold to the USA and Croatia
Antonín Bajaja
born 1942
novelist, poet, journalist
author of 2 works of fiction
numerous prizes, including the Magnesia Litera award for Czech Literature in the Prose
category (2004) for his latest novel Growing Wild / Zvlčení (also nominated for the State
Prize for Literature in 2003)
published in Belarus and Hungary
Alexandra Berková
born 1949
prose writer, journalist, author of TV screenplays and radio dramas
author of 5 works of fiction
Egon Hostovský Prize for the book Magoria: or a Tale of Great Love / Magorie aneb Příběh
velké lásky
published in Spain, Finland, Bulgaria and Slovenia
Pavel Brycz
born 1968
prose writer, writer of songs and stories for children, scriptwriter, columnist
author of 8 works of fiction
Jiří Orten Prize (a prestigious literary award for writers under the age of 30); State Prize
for Literature (2004) for the novel The Patriarchy Lost its Glory Long Ago / Patriarchátu
dávno zašlá sláva; nomination for the Magnesia Litera award for Czech Literature in the
Children´s Books category for 2007 for the book Gabriela´s Magic World / Kouzelný svět
Gabriely
rights sold to Slovenia, Poland and Hungary
Radka Denemarková
born 1968
novelist, dramatist, TV screenplay writer, translator, essayist
author of 2 works of fiction
Magnesia Litera award for Czech Literature in the Prose category in 2007 for her latest
novel Money from Hitler/ Peníze od Hitlera
published in Hungary, rights sold to Bulgaria and Poland
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Irena Dousková
born 1964
novelist, short-story writer, poet and playwright
author of 6 works of fiction, two of them bestsellers
published in Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland, rights sold to Slovenia
Martin Fahrner
born 1964
novelist, poet, translator and playwright
author of 3 books of fiction
published in Germany, Slovenia and Bulgaria
Daniela Fischerová
born 1948
dramatist, columnist and prose writer; author of numerous stage plays, screenplays for
short, animated and feature-length films, radio plays, author of several works of prose for
adults and for children, and 1 novel
in 2007, the novel Happy Ending /Happy end received one of the prizes of the Czech
Academy of Literature – the Božena Němcová Award for a work which has contributed to
the development of Czech literature and society
Viola Fischerová
born 1935
poet, translator and author of books for children
author of 9 books of verse and 2 for children
several literary prizes for her poetry, eg. Dresdener Lyrik Preis, 2006; her first book for
children was awardedv the Magnesia Litera literary prize and the Gold Ribbon of the
Czech section of IBBY for the most beautiful book of the year (both 2007)
selected poetry published in Poland and Spain
Martina Formanová
born 1967
author of 2 bestselling novellas
published in Serbia and Hungary
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Jiří Hájíček
born 1967
prose writer and journalist
author of 6 works of fiction
Magnesia Litera award for Czech Literature in the Prose category (2006) for his latest
novel Rustic Baroque / Selský baroko (also 3rd prize in the Book of the Year for 2005)
published in Hungary, rights sold to Italy and Bulgaria
www.hajicek.info
Jakuba Katalpa
born in 1979
author of 1 novella
Is Soil to Be Eaten? / Je hlína k snědku? nominated for the prestigious Magnesia Litera
Award for Czech literature in the Newcomer of the Year category (2007)
Zdena Koláček
born 1956
author of 1 book of short stories
Stanislav Komárek
born 1958
novelist, essayist, columnist, poet
author of 3 works of fiction
Tom Stoppard Award, 2006
published in Germany and Poland
www.stanislav-komarek.cz
Jiří Kratochvil
born 1940
novelist, author of short stories, novels, essays and columns, playwright
author of 15 works of fiction
numerous domestic literary prizes (including Egon Hostovský Prize, Karel Čapek Award,
Jaroslav Seifert Award)
published in 8 languages, rights sold to Portugal and Croatia
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Roman Ludva
born 1966
prose writer, author of radio plays, screenplay writer for film and television
author of 5 books, mostly novels
published in Slovenia and Hungary
Marian Palla
born 1953
novelist, poet, playwright, musician, visual artist and performer
author of 5 books
published in Bulgaria, rights sold to Italy
Jaroslav Pížl
born 1961
poet, novelist
author of 5 books of verse and 1 novel
Tomáš Přidal
born 1968
artist, poet, writer of short stories, musician
author of 3 books of verse and 3 books of short stories
rights sold to Poland
Přemysl Rut
born 1954
prose and essay writer, playwright, stage director, songwriter, actor, singer, pianist…
author of 3 books of short stories
rights sold to Poland
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Bohuslav Vaněk-Úvalský
born 1970
prose writer, journalist
author of 5 books
published in Poland
Michal Viewegh
born 1962
novelist, author of short stories and newspaper columns, playwright, author of a book for
children
No. 1 best-selling Czech author, absolute leader of the sales charts over several years!
author of 18 books
4 successful feature films based on this author’s work; two more currently in production
more than 850,000 copies sold in the Czech Republic alone
published in 21 languages
www.viewegh.cz
David Zábranský
born 1977
author of 1 novel
Any Beach but This / Slabost pro každou jinou pláž was awarded the prestigious Magnesia
Litera Award for Czech literature in the Newcomer of the Year category (2007)
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 Foreign Publishers of Our Books 
Alfa-Narodna Knjiga, Serbia and Montenegro
Ammann Verlag, Switzerland
Anaya, Spain
Apokalipsa, Slovenia
Assírio & Alvim, Portugal
ATUT, Poland
Azbuka, Russia
Bassarai, Spain
Cankarjeva Zalozba, Slovenia
Colibri, Bulgaria
Dalkey Archive Press, U.S.A.
Didakta, Slovenia
DiVic, Croatia
DTV, Germany
Editions du Panama, France
Edizioni Anfora, Italy
Ednorog, Bulgaria
Eked, Israel
Európa, Hungary
Flammarion, France
Gallimard, France
Geleos, Russia
Gyldendal, Denmark
Heron Press, Bulgaria
Instar Libri, Italy
JAK, Hungary
Kalligram, Hungary
Kastaniotis, Greece
KiWi, Germany
LCA, Slovakia
Like, Finland
Locus, China
Logvinov, Belarus
Mágus, Hungary
Metáfora, Spain
MIK, Russia
Mladinska Knjiga, Slovenia
Mondadori, Italy
Mozaik Knjiga, Croatia
Opcje, Poland
Panorama, Bulgaria
Pietro Zuliani / Centro Full Service, Italy
Piper, Germany
Pogranicze, Poland
Poldi Libri, Italy
Profil, Croatia
Readers International, UK & US
Rowohlt Berlin, Germany
Sanje, Slovenia
Stigmati/Bohemia Club, Bulgaria
Stylos, Serbia
Swiat Literacki, Poland
Tabernakul, Macedonia
Taifuuni, Finland
Tito Alba, Latvia
Uitgeverij Wereldbibliotheek, Netherlands
Ulpius Ház, Hungary
Vesper, Poland
Zsolnay/Deuticke, Austria
Zysk i S-ka Wydawnictwo, Poland
Dana Blatná
Literary Agency / Literární agentura
Jinačovice 3, 664 34 Kuřim
Czech Republic
[email protected]
www.dbagency.cz