Jiří Hájíček

Jiří Hájíček (born 11 September 1967 in České Budějovice) is a contemporary South Bohemian Czech writer. He started writing poetry in the 1980s in a youth poetry programme hosted by Mirek Kovářík.[1] He won the 2006 Magnesia Litera prize for prose with his novel Selský baroko.[2] In the European Society of Authors' 2013 Finnegan's List, Jaroslav Rudiš selected Hájíček's 2012 novel Rybí krev (Fish Blood) to be more widely translated into European languages.[3] Rybí krev also won the Magnesia Litera Book of the Year for 2013.[4] In 2016, his novel Zloději zelených koní was adapted into a film by Dan Wlodarczyk.

Jiří Hájíček
Born (1967-09-11) 11 September 1967
České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia
OccupationWriter
Alma materUniversity of South Bohemia
Notable awardsMagnesia Litera (2006, 2013)
Website
hajicek.info

Work
  • Snídaně na refýži (The Breakfast on Safety Island), 1998 – collection of short stories
  • Zloději zelených koní (The Green Horse Hustlers), 2001 – novel, published also in Hungarian in 2003. Filmed in 2016.
  • Dobrodruzi hlavního proudu(The Mainstream Adventurers), 2002 – novel
  • Dřevěný nůž (The Wooden Knife), 2004 – collection of short stories. Four of the stories are included in the English version of Rustic Baroque
  • Selský baroko, 2005 – novel, published in English as Rustic Baroque in 2012[5] as well as in Hungarian, Italian and Bulgarian
  • Fotbalové deníky (The Football Diaries), 2007 – novella
  • Rybí krev (Fish Blood), 2012 – novel
  • Dešťová hůl (The Rainstick), 2016 – novel
  • Lvíčata (Lion Cubs), 2017 – short story published in Best European Fiction 2017 [6]

References
  1. "Jiří Hájíček".
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Finnegan's Lists". Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  4. "Magnesia Litera - Oceňujeme a propagujeme kvalitní literaturu".
  5. "Real World Press".
  6. "Jiří Hájíček in the Best European Fiction 2017 anthology". CzechLit. Retrieved 15 February 2017.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.