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Patrik Ouredník's Europeana
Read about Patrik Ouredník's slim volume Europeana (A Brief History of the Twentieth Century), voted Book of 2001 in the Lidové noviny poll.
Poems by Petr Borkovec
Read poems by Petr Borkovec, translated by Justin Quinn in Transcript.
Salt, Sheep and Stone by Magdaléna Platzová
Read an extract from Salt, Sheep and Stone by Magdaléna Platzová, editor of Literární noviny.
What does Europe think of Czech literature?
Transcript asks readers and translators of Czech literature around Europe who, in their opinion, is the most important Czech author of the 1990s - Topol, Hrabal, Hodrova, Kratochvil...?
The Legatová Phenomenon
Read about Zelary (2001) and Jozova Hanule (2002) by Kveta Legatová, a mature first-time author who has taken the Czech book-market by storm.
Hastrman by Milos Urban
Milos Urban is one of the leading Czech prose-writers of the last decade. Read an excerpt from his latest book Hastrman translated by Iván Gutierrez.

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