Jiří Hájíček Explained
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.
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]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Jiří Hájíček.
- Web site: Archived copy . 15 January 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120423183156/http://www.magnesia-litera.cz/archive/2006 . 23 April 2012 . dead .
- Web site: Finnegan's Lists . 15 January 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130217102721/http://www.seua.org/en/finnegan/5 . 17 February 2013 . dead .
- Web site: Magnesia Litera - Oceňujeme a propagujeme kvalitní literaturu.
- Web site: Real World Press.
- News: Jiří Hájíček in the Best European Fiction 2017 anthology. CzechLit. 2017-02-15. en-GB.
