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Current AffairsIt's festival time in the Czech Republic
Summer is getting closer which means it's festival time again in the Czech
Republic. Here are some of the festivals taking place in the next few
weeks.
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Czech Books"A return to ideas": Michael March on the 15th Prague Writers' Festival
In this edition we visit the office of the Prague Writers' Festival and
talk to Michael March, who has organized the event from its inception. The
festival begins on Sunday 5th June, and if you are not in Prague it is also
possible to follow events live through the festival website. Michael March
began his conversation with Bernie Higgins by telling her what would be
his own personal highlight this year.
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Current AffairsThe most successful spoof in Czech history strikes a chord
The weekly The Economist has called it one of the funniest European films
of
the year and the most successful spoof in Czech history: we are of course
talking about Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda's "Czech Dream" - a
new documentary showing how two film students fooled hundreds of Czech
shoppers to believe in a non-existent new mall - with extraordinarily
funny results. Following initial success at home, the film went on to its
international premiere at Locarno last week and we caught up with one of
the filmmakers, Filip Remunda, via telephone to get a sense of the mood at
the prestigious fest. More
Czech BooksEuro-Stodge or the Dawning of a Golden Age? How three European writers see the future of the continent.
This special edition of Czech Books comes from the Hotel Josef in one of
the winding medieval streets of Prague's Old Town; this is where writers
from different corners of the globe - from Saint Petersburg to
Johannesburg - have gathered for the 14th Prague Writers' Festival. Prague
is right in the heart of Europe: if you go some fifteen hundred kilometres
to the north-west, you get to Britain, if you go the same distance in the
opposite direction, you reach Greece. So with just days to go till the
expansion of the European Union, I'm joined by writers from Greece, the
Czech Republic and the United Kingdom.
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Current AffairsPrague Writers' Festival highlights: the poetry of Miloslav Topinka
This year's Prague Writers' Festival, which has now come and gone, but left
a lot to be thankful for and a lot to remember. Not least was a meeting of
poets Miloslav Topinka and Zbigniew Machej on Theatre Minor's stage for a
reading of their work last Wednesday.
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Current AffairsAuthor Gary Shteyngart - a former expatriate - returns to Prague for writers' festival
Of all the authors' participating in this years' Prague Writers' Festival,
none seems like a more apt choice than Gary Shteyngart. His award-winning
first novel - The Russian Debutante's Handbook - is actually set in Prague
during the early 1990s. The novel has received much praise for the sharp,
satirical manner in which it portrays the notorious American expatriate
scene that existed in the city back then. We met up with him while he was
here to talk about his comic portrayal of this particular period in
Prague's recent history.
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Current AffairsPrague Writers' Festival finds its groove with Anghelaki-Rooke, Hofmann, & Irwin: this is what a world-class festival is all about
This week the 14th annual Prague Writers' Festival has been underway in
Prague and Jan Velinger has been attending afternoon discussions and the
so-called "International Evenings". On Wednesday the evening
programme welcomed Greek poet Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, German-born
English poet Michael Hofmann, and English writer Robert Irwin. As Jan
Velinger now reports this was the unforgettable night that visitors had
been waiting for.
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Current AffairsPrague Writers' Festival - currently underway - discusses the 'New EU'
This year's Prague Writers Festival - the 14th since its inception - is now
underway in the Czech capital, this year bringing yet another group of
world-class authors to Prague. Authors including South African Nobel prize
winner Nadine Gordimer, German poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and
Russian-born American author Gary Shteyngart, to name just a few. Czechs
are of course also represented by several authors, including former
dissident Eda Kriseova - the author of a biography on Vaclav Havel.
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