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Květa Legátová
(1919)
is the pen name of an author born
into a countryside teacher’s family.
She studied Czech, German,
physics and mathematics and
after a short spell as a teacher of
German at a conservatory in Brno
during the war she worked at
a remote one-form schools in the
Beskydy mountains. Deemed
politically unreliable, she was
often forced to move from one
school to another. Her teaching
career lasted for over forty years.
The parts of Wallachia and Moravian
Slovakia called Kopanice
have for a long time become the
main source of inspiration for her
balladic and at the same time
naturalist stories. In the sixties
she co-operated with the Brnobased
Host do domu magazine
and her radio play was awarded
the Prix Bohemia in the early
1990s. In 2001 she made her stunning
debut on the Czech literary
scene.
Winner of the State Award for Literature
Bibliography:
Želary (The Vilage of Želary), 2001;
Jozova Hanule, 2002
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Alexandra Berková
(1949)
Author of prose fiction and
screenplays, she graduated from
a secondary school of glass-making
and went on to study Czech
and art education at Charles
University, Prague. She was
employed as an editor in the Svoboda
and Český spisovatel publishing
houses. In the 1990s she
ran a creative writing seminar
with Josef Škvorecký at a private
secondary school bearing
Škvorecký’s name. At present,
Berková is the head of the
Department of Creative Writing at
the Literary Academy. Back in the
second half of the 1980s she cofounded
an informal literary
group called ‚Hejno českých
spisovatelů Mamut‘ ( A Flock of
Czech Writer, Mammoth), which
brought together nonconformist
writers. In 1989 she helped to
found the Czech Centre of the
P.E.N. Club and the Community of
Writers. She is also active in the
feminist movement.
Winner of the Egon Hostovský Prize
Bibliography:
Knížka s červeným obalem (The Book
with the Red Cover), 1986; Magorie
aneb příběh velké lásky (Loonysm or
the Story of a Great Love), 1991, 1993;
Utrpení oddaného Všiváka (The Sufferings
of an Affectionate Scoundrel),
1993, 1995; Temná láska (Dark Love),
2000; Dámská jízda (Ladies Only -
TV play) 1992; Co teď a co potom
(What Now and What Then -TV series);
author of radio plays
Hana Androniková
(1967)
Studied at a grammar school in
Zlín, from where she went on to the
Charles University Arts Faculty,
mastering in English - Czech. Having
finished her studies she
worked as a personnel manager in
both foreign and Czech companies.
In 1999 she discontinued her business
activities and has focused on
literature ever since. Her first novel
was published in 2001.
Winner of the Magnesia Litera 2002 –
Discovery of the Year and the Book
Club Literary Award 2001
Bibliography:
Zvuk slunečních hodin (The Sound
of the Sun Dial), 2001; Srdce na udici
(Heart on the Hook), 2002
Petra Hůlová
(1979)
Student of Cultural and Mongolian
Studies at the Charles
University Arts Faculty, she spent
the 2000-2001 school year in
Mongolia. This year TORST publishers
have published her curiously
entitled book Paměť mojí
babičce (Memory My Granny).
Petra Hůlová is single and has no
children.
Winner of the Magnesia Litera 2003 –
Discovery of the Year
Bibliography:
Paměť mojí babičce
(Memory My Granny), 2003
Ludvík Vaculík
(1926)
Novelist, essayist, and columnist
Ludvík Vaculík was originally
trained as a shoemaker and factory
worker. After taking a degree
in journalism from the School of
Political and Social Sciencies he
became a warden in an apprentices‘
dormitory, and then an editor
at Czechoslovak Radio before
moving on to Literární noviny. Of
his provocative newspaper
columns his „Two-thousand
Words” manifesto met with
greatest response. Vaculík was
persecuted by the authorities in
the 1970s when he founded
a samizdat series called Petlice
(which eventually comprised
about 400 books) and signed
Charter 77. From the late 1960s till
the changes of 1989 he was not
permitted to publish in the regular,
state-owned publishing houses.
In 1996 he received the Order
of Tomáš Masaryk.
Winner of the Karel Čapek Award 2002
Bibliography:
Český snář (The Czech Dream-book),
1980; Dva tisíce slov (Two-thousand
Words), 1968; Jak se dělá chlapec
(The Making of a Boy), 1993; Jaro
je tady (Spring’s Here), 1988; Morčata
(Guinea Pigs), 1970; Rušný dům
(A Busy House), 1963; Sekyra
(The Axe), 1966; Sólo pro psací stroj
(Solo for the Typewriter), 1984;
Srpnový rok (The Year of August),
1989; Nové vlastenecké písně Karla
Havlíčka Borovského (Karel Havlíček
Borovský’s New Patriotic Songs),
1990; Stará dáma se baví (The Old
Lady’s Having Fun), 1991; Poco rubato
1994; Nad jezerem škaredě hrát
(To Play Gross Above the Lake), 1996;
Nepaměti (Biograspy), 1998; Cesta
na Praděd (On the Way to Mount
Praděd), 2001; Loučení k panně
(Farewell to a Virgin)
Emil Hakl
(1958)
Studied at the Jaroslav Ježek
Academy, specialising in lyrics
writing, with extra two years of
drama at the same school.
Since 1980 he worked as a window-dresser,
librarian, petrol station
mechanic and sound engineer.
Between 1995 - 2000 he
composed texts for various
advertising agencies. In 2001 he
worked as an editor in the literary
biweekly Tvar and currently earns
his living as a journalist.
In the eighties he was focusing on
writing verse and preparing and
staging drama adaptations of literary
works with various amateur
ensembles. By the end of the
1980s and beginning of the
1990s he became one of the cofounders
of the Modern Illiterate
free literary association, which
later attracted the collaboration
of numerous other authors. He
started writing prose in 1998 and
has not stopped since.
His works have been published
in the Iniciály, Týden, Tvar,
Aluze, Salon magazines, the
Hospodářské noviny daily supplement,
the Moderní analfabet
(Modern Illiterate) revue, Dobrá
adresa internet magazine and
a number of anthologies. His
poetry and prose have also been
broadcasted by the radio. He is
represented in the Anthologie de
la poésie tchéque contemporaine
1945-2000 (Gallimard, Paris 2002).
Winner of the Magnesia Litera 2003
Bibliography:
Rozpojená slova (Disjoined Words),
1991; Zkušební trylky z Marsu (Trial
Trills from Mars), 2000; Konec světa
(The End of the World), 2001, 2002;
Intimní schránka Sabriny Black
(Sabrina Black’s Intimate Case), 2002;
O rodičích a dětech (On Parents
and Children), 2002
Petr Borkovec
(1970)
Having graduated from the Jan
Kepler Grammar School in Prague
he did not finish his studies at the
department of Czech studies of
the Charles University Arts Faculty.
Since 1992 he was the editor of
the Prague revue for Christianity
and culture Souvislosti and has
worked as a proof reader in the
Dnes daily, fiction editor in Nakladatelství
Lidové noviny publishing
house, headed the Art and Critique
supplement of the Lidové
noviny daily and also worked as
an editor in Literární noviny. He
currently earns his living as
a freelance writer and poetry
translator. His poems have been
published in German and Italian,
English and French translations
are due to be published soon.
Winner of the Jiří Orten Prize
Bibliography:
Poetry books: Prostírání do tichého
(Set into Silence), 1990; Poustevna,
věštírna, loutkárna (Hermitage, Oracle,
Puppetroom), 1991; Ochoz (The Gallery),
1994; Mezi oknem, stolem a postelí
(Between Window, Table and Bed),
1996; Polní práce (Fieldwork), 1998
awarded the Hubert-Burda-Preis 2001
and Norbert-C.-Kaser-Preis 2001 for
the German translation of Fieldwork.
free cycle of twelve poems entitled
A.B.A.F., 1994. Needle-Book, 2003
Translations:
U řek babylonských (By the Rivers of
Babylon), 1996; Ut pictura poesis, 2002,
poems by Vladislav Chodasevich, Juriy
Odarchenko, Yevgeniy Reyn, Zinayda
Gippius, Georgiy Ivanov, Josif Brodsky
and others published in magazines,
Jasná luna v prázdných horách (Clear
Moon in Empty Mountains), 2001 with
Vladimír Pucek; drama Oidipus Rex by
Sophocles and Oresteia by Aychilos.
Jaroslav Rudiš
(1972)
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Following his studies at the
Turnov grammar school he pursued
further academic career in
Liberec, Prague, Zurich and Berlin.
A graduated teacher of German
and history, he was earning
his living performing various professions
- a Czech brewery’s
advertising agent in Germany,
baker in the Alps, hotel porter, DJ
and sound engineer in a rock
club, manager of a punk band,
teacher, bricklayer and dairy shop
assistant. Currently he is the editor
of the Právo daily culture supplement.
His works include short
stories, poetry and song lyrics. He
collects old railway timetables
and maps. In 2001-2002 he lived in
Berlin on a journalist scholarship
from the Free University and is
currently recording a debut novel
entitled “Heaven under Berlin”.
He is also collaborating with the
painter Jaromír 99 on his next
book - an original black & white
comic book from the Sudentenland,
to be published under the
title “The White Brook”. As an
editor he is compiling a reader of
contemporary German literature.
Winner of the Jiří Orten Award 2002
Bibliography:
Nebe pod Berlínem
(Heaven under Berlin), 2002
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