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Pavel Brycz se je rodil leta 1968 v
Roudnici nad Labo na Češkem.
Študiral je češki jezik v Ústí nad
Labo in dramaturgijo na Akademiji
lepih umetnosti (DAMU) v Pragi.
Piše prozo za otroke in odrasle, je
dramatik, scenarist in tekstopisec.
Napisal je več zbirk kratke proze, npr.
Hlava Upanišády (Glava Upanišade,
1993), in več romanov, kot so Jsem
město (Sem mesto, 1999), za katerega
je prejel nagrado Jiříja Ortena za
književnost (1999), Sloni mlčí (Sloni
molčijo, 2002), ki ga je napisal
v Franciji, kjer je bival kot dobitnik
UNESCO-ve pisateljske štipendije
(2000), Patriarchátu dávno zašlá
sláva (Patriarhata davno minula slava,
2004), za katerega je prejel češko
državno nagrado za književnost, leta
2008 pa je delo izšlo tudi v slovenskem
prevodu Tatjane Jamnik pri
Društvu Apokalipsa, in Svatý démon
(Sveti demon, 2009). Njegovo najnovejše
delo za otroke nosi naslov Bílá
paní na hlídání (Bela gospa varuška,
2010).
Pavel Brycz was born in 1968 in
Roudnice nad Labem, in the Czech
Republic . After studying Czech philology
in Ústí nad Labem, he read dramaturgy
at the Academy of Performing Arts
(DAMU) in Prague . The author of adult
and children’s literature, playwright,
script writer, lyricist and recepient of
the UNESCO grant for authors (2000)
has written several collections of prose;
Hlava Upanišády (The Head of the
Upanishad, 1993) being his first; and
a string of novels such as Jsem město (I,
City, 1999); for which he won the Jiří
Orten Prize for literature (1999); Sloni
mlčí (The Elephants Are Quiet, 2002),
which he wrote while living in France
as a recipient of the UNESCO grant
for writers (2000); Patriarchátu dávno
zašlá sláva (The Long Lost Glory of the
Patriarchy, 2004), for which he won the
Czech State Literature Prize, while the
novel was also translated into Slovene by
Tatjana Jamnik and published by the
Društvo Apokalipsa publishing house
in 2008; and Svatý démon (The Holy
Demon, 2009) . His most recent children’s
book is titled Bílá paní na hlídání
(White Lady, Babysitter, 2010) .