A complete text (all in Czech) of a book survey of Czech exile literature between 1971 and 1989 was made available by the author on the University of Glasgow's Slavonic Studies Department website.  read more »

The Prague Post Online: Tempo: Translating the Czech Golden Age
"The years of the First Republic, 1918-1938, were the golden years of Czech culture, particularly in literature," translator Mark Corner says over coffee at the French Institute's café. "It's the Čapek Age, though many of the writers were never translated for English audiences. The double blow of the Nazis and the communists saw to that."

There are many names associated with this period from Čapek to Seifert (one of two Czechs to have received the Nobel prize).  read more »

Film, který vznikal dvacet let - www.lidovky.cz Film Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále je spojen s řadou očekávání: po dvanácti letech se jím vrátil za kameru režisér Jiří Menzel, který bývá označován za specialistu na Hrabala, jeho předlohy natáčel šestkrát, za Ostře sledované vlaky získal v roce 1968 Oscara. Okolnosti vzniku Anglického krále byly navíc velmi komplikované, takřka dvacet let trval spor o autorská práva na Hrabalovu knihu. Jiří Menzel začal Anglického krále točit letos v březnu v produkci AQS, koproducentem snímku s nadstandardním rozpočtem 84,5 milionu korun je televize Nova, Magic Box Slovakia, Barrandov Studios a UPP.  read more »

Fact or fiction – both are welcome in the writing competition run in 2006 by the British Czech and Slovak Association. A first prize of £300 and a second prize of £100 will be awarded to the best 1,500 to 2,000-word pieces of original writing in English on the links between Britain and the Czech/Slovak Republics, or describing society in transition in the Republics since 1989. Topics can include history, politics, the sciences, economics, the arts or literature.

The writer of this year's winning entry will be presented with the prize at the BCSA’s annual dinner in London in November 2006. The piece will be published in the December 2006 issue of the British Czech and Slovak Review.  read more »

Writers Skvorecky, Salivarova awarded for spreading Czech name - Prague Daily Monitor
Writers Josef Skvorecky and Zdena Salivarova were awarded with the price Gratias Agit for their spreading the good name of the Czech Republic abroad by Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda last night.

Along with their own creation, Skvorecky and Salivarova, who married in the 1960s and left Czechoslovakia after its 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion, devoted their efforts to the publication of Czech literature when in exile in Canada.  read more »