Two scholars trace the thread, dark humor, historical irony, and a run of remarkable women writers, that keeps drawing global ...

Scholars from 25 countries are in Prague for the 7th World Czech Studies Congress. I spoke with organiser Dalibor Dobiáš ...

Last month the Czech Republic was rocked by a literary scandal that soon took on political overtones: Czech author Jan Novák released the first ever Czech biography of Milan Kundera, a Czech-French ...

“Poets are the antennae of the race,” declared the American poet Ezra Pound more than 50 years ago, a statement that optimists – and poets – still hold to be true. But the Internet age has caused a ...

Two manuscripts that played a crucial role in the Czech cultural revival turned out to be forgeries. But their contributions to Czech literature and national culture were real, says Slavic languages ...

Manuscripts of Czech writers and records of their plight at the hands of state security police in the former Czechoslovakia are on display at the National Museum of Taiwan Literature (NMTL) as part of ...

Igor Hajek was a member of that remarkable generation of Czech writers, artists and intellectuals who strove, from the early 1960s onwards, to bring freedom to communist Czechoslovakia by gradually ...

Czech author in exile Milan Kundera scored a bestseller in the Czech Republic with his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being more than 20 years after it first was published and now he has won his ...

The Czech Embassy has held an event to show that there is more to the European nation’s literary riches than Franz Kafka and Milan Kundera. The reading at the COEX Seoul International Book Fair on ...

The six-volume Czech-Vietnamese encyclopaedia was among eight works honoured at the 2019 award for literature by the Czech Writers’ Association in Prague on November 9 in recognition for their ...

Author's Reading Month spotlights Greenland as its guest of honour. Pavel Drábek told Radio Prague International why the ...