Jiří Hájíček
Jiří Hájíček | |
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Born | České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia | 11 September 1967
Occupation | Writer |
Alma mater | University of South Bohemia |
Notable awards | Magnesia Litera (2006, 2013) |
Website | |
hajicek.info |
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 .[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 .
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[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ http://www.magnesia-litera.cz/#archiv-2006
- ^ http://www.realworldpress.cz/our_books.html
- ^ "Jiří Hájíček in the Best European Fiction 2017 anthology". CzechLit. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1967 births
- Living people
- Czech novelists
- Male novelists
- Czech male writers
- Magnesia Litera winners
- Writers from České Budějovice
- University of South Bohemia alumni
- Czech writer stubs