News

Good news from abroad:

Remarkable success of Jiří Kratochvil and Michal Viewegh´s books on the German language book market, Michal Ajvaz broadly reviewed for the English editions of his two novels published in USA by Dalkey Archive Press.

Michal Viewegh in German
The novella Engel des Letzten Tages (Deuticke/Zsolnay, March 2010) is widely reviewed in Austria and Germany, for the renowned critic Christine Westernann it is „my vote for the book of the Spring 2010. The title has appeared in the popular ORF Bestenlist. This success is followed by the fact that paperback rights for two novels by Michal Viewegh already published in German have been bought by DTV.

Jiří Kratochvil in German
The media response for the German edition of Jiří Kratochvil´s novel Promise (Das Versprechen des Architekten) are more than „promising“. The whole page reviews appeared in leading newspapers, the author had his extended interview on TV prime time news on the ORF 1 channel. In June, the book appeared on the German best 10 crime fiction list of the daily Die Welt, and in Salzburger Nachrichten, it was voted the book of the month.

Michal Ajvaz in English
Especially The Other City (Dalkey Archive Press, 2009) is doing really well: Amazon.com Editor's Top 10 Science Fiction/Fantasy Book of 2009
Selected as one of the best books of 2009 by Time Out New York
Selected as one of the best books of 2009 by Locus Magazine

The book is already published in 5 languages, the Swedish and Norwegian edition is being prepared.

The author will also be represented in the Best European Fiction 2011, anthology to be published by Dalkey Archive Press, USA.

Domestic News:
Two authors are currently shortlisted for the Josef Škvorecký literary prize – Antonín Bajaja for his novel Na krásné modré Dřevnici / On the Beautiful Blue Dřevnice and Kateřina Tučková for her novel Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch / The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch. The results to be announced in October.
Note: both the books were also nominated for Magnesia Litera award this year, where Tučková gained the readers prize. For the same book, she was also already shortlisted for Jiří Orten Prize for the writers under 30 years of age.
The latest book by Petra Soukupová Zmizet / To Dissapear has been ranked among 10 best sold fiction titles in the Czech Republic, with the total sales of about 9. 000 copies, which is the extraordinary success for such a young author. This triptych of stories is also very widely reviewed, the portfolio with extracts of the reviews translated into English is already available. The extended English sample translations from both the books by Petra Soukupová are available on request, too. Rights for To Disappear sold to Italy.
Note: the book is the current holder of the title The Book of the Year, the main category in Magnesia Litera Awards.

In October, the new novel by Michal Viewegh will be published under the title Biomanželka / Bio-Wife.

Michal Viewegh: Lekce tvůrčího psaní, Studentska Založba, Slovenia
Michal Viewegh: selected stories from the books Povídky o manželsví a o sexu and Povídky o lásce, Modrijan, Slovenia
Radka Denemarková: Peníze od Hitlera, Keller Editore, Italy
MIchal Viewegh: Vybíjená,  H20, Italy
Michal Viewegh: Povídky o lásce, Zsolnay/Deuticke, Austria
Petra Soukupová: Zmizet, H20, Italy

*Michal Viewegh: Angels of the Everyday / Andělé všedního dne, Deuticke / Szolnay, Austria
*Jiří Kratochvil: The Promise / Slib, Braumuller Literatur Verlag, Austria
*Stanislav Komárek: The Little Black House / Černý domeček, Braumuller Literatur Verlag, Austria
*Michal Ajvaz: The Golden Age / Zlatý věk, Dalkey Archive Press, USA
Irena Dousková: Onegin Was a Rusky / Oněgin byl Rusák, Didakta, Slovenia
Irena Dousková: Onegin Was a Rusky / Oněgin byl Rusák, Wydawnictwo Mozaika, Poland
*Michal Viewegh: Dodgeball / Vybíjená, Maeva, Spain
Michal Viewegh: Men´s Novel / Román pro muže, Elipsa, Poland
*Michal Ajvaz: The Beatle (short story from the book Return of the Old Komodo Dragon) / Brouk (from Návrat starého varana), Voetnoot, Netherlands
Michal Ajvaz: Turquoise Eagel / Tyrkysový orel, Profil, Croatia
Radka Denemarková: Money from Hitler / Peníze od Hitlera, Modrijan, Slovenia
Antonín Bajaja: Growing Wild / Zvlčení, Modrijan, Slovenia
Michal Ajvaz: The Other City / Druhé město, Aspekt, Sweden
*Michal Viewegh: The Case of Unfaithful Klára / Případ nevěrné Kláry, Sanje, Slovenia
Pavel Brycz: The Patriarchy Lost Its Glory Long Ago / Patriarchátu dávno zašlá sláva, Európa, Hungary
Jiří Kratochvil: The Actor / Herec, Éditions Gallimard, France
*Jiří Kratochvil: Singing in the Middle of the Nights / Uprostřed nocí zpěv (second, newly translated edition), Impedimenta, Spain
*Michal Viewegh: Creative Writing Lesson / Lekce tvůrčího psaní, Studentska Založba, Slovenia
*Michal Viewegh: The Wonderful Years of Lousy Living / Báječná léta pod psa, Colibri, Bulgaria


*already published