The novel Orbital tells about the astronauts’ stay on the International Space Station, for which the English writer Samantha Harvey won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction this Tuesday night. The book tells about 24 hours on board the space station. In addition to the usual tasks and duties of the six astronauts, two men … Read more
The Josef Jungmann prize for the best translation was won by Michal Ctibor, who translated the epic Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil into Czech. German translator Michaela Jacobsen was inducted into the Hall of Fame. The award for outstanding achievement under the age of 34 goes to Zdeněk Polívka for his work on Chris … Read more
Attacking crows and mosquitoes in the center of Campulung! Risk what the wings do. Better said bad bad. They take the garbage out of the dumpsters and scatter it everywhere. All the time you see mess in the streets is not made by people. Many problems also come from crows, which have increased a lot … Read more
A tank train has derailed and smoke is billowing from it. The deadly chemical creates a thick black cloud. While firefighters in coveralls with gas masks run around below, above, the cones of searchlights from army helicopters follow where the huge dark mass is blown by the wind. A voice from a megaphone calls for … Read more
As the measles epidemic spreads, more and more Romanians begin to feel fear in their bones! According to a study published in the weekend supplement of Nature magazine, the most panicked people are the children from Dorobanti and the MEP Rareş Bogdan, who understood that measles is caught from lipstick. “Oh, well, I can’t live … Read more
A 46-year-old Romanian suspected of driving into the police in Heerenveen in 2013 has been arrested. The Public Prosecution Service reports that the police tracked down the man through DNA research. The man is suspected of driving into two police officers during a check on an industrial estate in Heerenveen on August 3, 2013. The … Read more
French writer Dominique Barbéris won the prestigious Académie française Grand Prize for the novel this Thursday evening for a love story set in the era of colonialism. This was reported by the AFP agency. The jury chose the winner in the first round. The 65-year-old academic has been teaching literature at the Sorbonne in Paris … Read more
For Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, the conflict in the Gaza Strip proves that real and metaphorical walls continue to divide the world. Now, first of all, he wishes for peace. In the long term, however, he does not stop hoping that reading books can not only provide a person with an escape from an increasingly … Read more
At first glance, Echtzeitalter looks like a school novel, for which the thirty-one-year-old Austrian Tonio Schachinger won the prestigious German Book Prize this Monday evening. However, according to the jury, the book’s title is deceiving. In fact, it follows the long tradition of the social novel. As the DPA agency writes, the story focuses on … Read more
In times of clanking guns and political skirmishes between Russia and Europe, we need dialogue, says Russian writer Guzel Jachina. The author of the award-winning novels Zulejka opens her eyes, Children of the Volga and Train to Samarkand likes to chat with readers. She considers preserving the dialogue to be more important today than a … Read more