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
The 64-year-old Norwegian playwright and writer Jon Fosse became the latest laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. He was honored for his innovative prose and poetry, with which he expressed the unspeakable, said Mats Malm, the awarding secretary of the Swedish Academy. He emphasized that the author has established himself on a … Read more
At the age of 59, the Syrian writer, critic of the regime and chronicler of the civil war, Khalid Khalifa, died. This was reported by the AFP agency, according to which the cause of death was cardiac arrest. The man of letters died at home in Damascus. Czech readers knew him thanks to the novel … Read more
It wasn’t until he was forty that he made his debut with the novel Mr. Theodor Mundstock, and he had success with Natália Mooshabrová’s Mice or the later filmed Incinerator of the Corpses. He lived in an apartment reminiscent of a mausoleum with a stuffed parrot, selflessly cared for his mother until her death, and … Read more
He outraged the German Jewish community with polemics about the Holocaust. German writer Martin Walser died at the age of 96. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported about it with reference to his loved ones. The winner of the Georg Büchner Prize has developed into one of the most important, but also the most controversial, authors of … Read more
He outraged the German Jewish community with polemics about the Holocaust. German writer Martin Walser died at the age of 96. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported about it with reference to his loved ones. The winner of the Georg Büchner Prize has developed into one of the most important, but also the most controversial, authors of … Read more
When Alena Mornštajnová writes a new book, it makes no sense to ask what leads the sales chart. A three-hundred-page novel called The Forest in the House topped the charts just last week, just after its release. It is a joyless narrative, a walk through the valley of shadows, from where the footpath does not … Read more