On Friday, April 25 at 7pm Czech poet Petr Hruška together with poet and NYRB editor Jana Prikryl and poet Jeffrey McDaniel will be reading at the Czech Center in New York City. Hruška, who at this point has as many US tours as the Rolling Stones, will be presenting his recently translated book I […]
On June 18 New York’s Czech Center will be hosting the release of Heda Margolius Kovály’s novel, Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street. Heda Margolius Kovály (1919-2010) is most famous for her memoir Under A Cruel Star – A Life in Prague 1941–1968 but in 1985 she wrote her crime novel, finally translated this year […]
From Nov. 14 through Nov. 16 the 10th annual New Literature from Europe festival will take place in New York featuring a number of authors from Central (but not only) Europe. Top of the list is Czech writer of the recently published The Devil’s Workshop, Jáchym Topol (top of the list, in this case, means […]
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