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In this week's edition of the Arts, we look at a unique way in which
children in refugee camps are helped to adjust to their new environment.
First, though, some of the stories making headlines in Czech arts and
culture:
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One on OnePavel Medek - translating the adventures of Harry Potter into Czech
Who wouldn't jump at the chance to translate the adventures of Harry
Potter? In Czech the distinction of translating the world-famous series is
jointly held by two brothers - Vladimir and Pavel Medek. Recently, I was
able to sit down with Pavel Medek, who worked on the third book in the
series and is now busy translating J.K. Rowling's latest - much darker -
instalment - anxiously awaited by Czech children: 'Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix'. Indeed Potter-mania is just as common in the Czech
Republic as everywhere else! I began by asking the charismatic translator
if he recalled impressions the first time he was introduced to the Harry
Potter world.
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MagazineBelieve it or not
Why did it take a postcard twenty years to get from Los Angeles to
Prostejov in the Czech Republic, what happened to make three people
disappear down a black hole as they sat in a cinema watching a late night
movie and what is Scheherezade doing in a baroque castle in western
Bohemia? In this week's Magazine Daniela Lazarova brings you some of the
whacky and attention grabbing stories that you won't find in our news
bulletins.
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