Czech Books – contemporary prose writers
Here you will find links to programmes with and about some of the best contemporary Czech prose writers, featured in my biweekly radio series Czech Books from 2003 to 2019.
Authors listed alphabetically (by first name):
Aleš Macháček: writer, poet.
A true story of communist Czechoslovakia in poetry and prose (2012)
Arnošt Lustig: novelist.
Love in the proximity of death (2007)
Remembering a great Czech writer (2016)
Blanka Čechová: novelist and lawyer.
Finding Kafka in Kosovo (2012)
Daniela Hodrová: novelist.
A brilliant trilogy of a many-layered Prague (2015)
Do Thu Trang: writer, blogger.
Love through the stomach (2016)
Hana Andronikova: novelist.
Sound of the Sundial – a classic of contemporary Czech fiction (2003)
Mourning the loss of a powerful literary voice (2012)
Hana Andronikova’s classic in English translation (2015)
Irena Dousková: novelist.
Growing up in 1970s Czechoslovakia (2017)
Iva Pekárková: novelist.
Gimme the Money (2003)
Nigeria – not just through Czech eyes (2003)
A cab on both sides of the road (2009)
Ivan Klíma: novelist.
A sceptic in the era of entertainment culture (2009)
Jan Balabán: novelist, short story writer, translator.
Some kind of answer (2011)
Jan Novák: novelist, playwright, screenwriter.
Author of the award-winning So Far So Good (2011)
Jana Kotaishová: writer, journalist.
A Palestinian story through Czech eyes (2015)
Jaroslav Rudiš: novelist.
The discreet charms of the Berlin U-Bahn (2003)
Craving noise and silence (2009)
Jindřich Mann: writer, film maker.
A Czech writer in a famous German literary family (2014)
Jiří Pehe: writer, political scientist, academic.
On his lost and found novel of identity (2006)
Jiří Šulc: novelist.
A dramatic retelling of a story of wartime heroism (2007)
Jiří Stránský: writer, journalist, dramatist, translator.
A doctor of prison sciences (2008)
Josef Škvorecký: novelist.
Havel and Škvorecký – a Proustian radio moment in 1966
Kateřina Tučková: novelist, historian.
On the last witches of Moravia (2013)
Lenka Horňáková Civade: novelist, artist, journalist.
History comes to the kitchen (2016)
Lucie Lomová: artist, writer.
A graphic novel of exquisite detail (2015)
Marek Toman: novelist.
The special meaning of pancakes (2014)
A shocking story of terrible murder (2015)
Martin Reiner: novelist, poet, publisher.
An award-winning novel about a poet in the maelstrom of the 20th century (2015)
Milan Kundera: novelist.
Ignorance – a novel of exile and memory (2004)
Miloš Urban: novelist.
The Seven Churches – a gothic novel for our time (2003)
Natálie Kocábová: novelist, musician.
Blood, gore and Baptist summer camps (2007)
Olga Walló: writer, director, translator.
A Bohemian Tale (2012)
Pavla Horáková: novelist.
The childhood pleasures of gravedigging (2010)
Petra Hůlová: novelist.
All This Belongs to Me (2007)
Through the eyes of an unreformed communist. (2009)
Through the eyes of a prostitute (2017)
Petra Procházková: writer and journalist.
The Aluminium Queen – women who survived war (2003)
Radek Hanykovics: writer.
Eight years in a Thai jail (2007)
Radka Denemarková: novelist, playwright, literary scholar, translator.
Money from Hitler – the importance of digging up skulls (2010)
Who’s afraid of Ivana Trump? (2013)
Tereza Boučková: novelist, screenwriter.
Tereza Boučková: novelist, screenwriter. The Year of the Rooster – on adoption and disintegration (2009)
Tomáš Zmeškal: novelist.
The Biography of a Black-and-White Lamb (2012)
Socrates on the Equator – putting things in their proper place (2014)