War novels and books from the times and places of war form an integral part of literature. This theme has been amply represented, starting with epic stories of ancient heroes all the way to Remarque or Hemingway. The contemporary reader's general perspective, however, often views the war topic as something confined to the realm of history, as...
At least such is the slightly exaggerated claim of the Comics Study Centre, whose collaborators include Martin Foret, Tomáš Prokůpek, Michal Jareš and Pavel Kořínek. These four men have introduced their research into the historical development of Czech comics art at the book fair.
Enjoying a breakfast at the book fair and listening, over some coffee and sandwiches, to what is new in the Latin American literary world, constituted an ideal start into the book fair's second day.
The typical Czech greeting - "ahoj" - will be the leitmotif of Czech Republic's presentation at the book fair in Leipzig, where our country will be the main guest next year.
Jürgen Boos, director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Oliver Zille, director of the Leipzig Book Fair, and Benedikt Föger from the Buch Wien book fair met as part of the Professional Forum to discuss the joys and hardships of book fairs in today's world of books.
As part of the book fair's main topic this year, The Ground-breaking 20th Century, the Lapidarium venue at the Exhibition Grounds played host to a renowned contemporary Slovenian prose writer Drago Jančar. Debate with the author, moderated by his current Czech translator Kamil Valšík, focused mostly on his novel that has recently been translated...
The winner of this year's 31st Jiří Orten Award is Ondřej Macl for his original mosaic of genres entitled I Love My Granny More Than Young Women (Miluji svou babičku víc než mladé dívky). The award was presented on May 10 at an afternoon ceremony held as part of the Book World Prague 2018 book fair. The expert jury, nominated...
T️his year's guest of honour at the Book World book fair is Israel - a very distinguished and welcome guest indeed, judging not only from the amply attended ceremonial opening of its book fair display. The symbolic ribbon was cut by the ambassador of the State of Israel to the Czech Republic Daniel Meron, with Book World Prague director...
Once again this year the traditional awards ceremony has been held under the patronage of the Czech Cartographic Society, announcing the best atlases and maps published in 2017. This year's prize-giving marked an important anniversary - 500 years since the publication of the Klaudyan map, the very first map of Bohemia published in print.
On Thursday morning, Martin Vopěnka, chairman of the organising Association of Czech Booksellers and Publishers, welcomed all the guests to the "festival of the written word" as part of the official opening of this year's Book World book fair.