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Slovak Literature in the Shadow of WWII

This Sunday at 1pm I will be moderating a panel on Slovak literature at Prague Book World featuring Julia Sherwood, Rajendra Chitnis, Ivana Taranenková and Peter Darovec. We’ll be discussing Karolinum’s two latest Slovak novels among a variety of topics. I hope to see you there. More info here

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Publishing Perspectives: EU Lit Prize Winners Dish on Tyranny of Big Languages

Unless a writer is translated into one of the big languages – English, French, German, Spanish – then it becomes very hard to get translated into the smaller languages. Three EU Literary Prize winners – the Czech Republic’s Tomáš Zmeškal, Bulgaria’s Kalin Terziiski and Romania’s Răzvan Rădulescu, talk about the challenges facing writers from smaller languages […]

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