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 | |
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| Born | 11 September 1967 České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | University of South Bohemia |
| Notable awards | Magnesia Litera (2006, 2013) |
| Website | |
| hajicek.info | |
Work
edit- 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
edit- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Finnegan's Lists". Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
- ^ "Magnesia Litera - Oceňujeme a propagujeme kvalitní literaturu".
- ^ "Real World Press".
- ^ "Jiří Hájíček in the Best European Fiction 2017 anthology". CzechLit. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
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