Patrik Hartl Explained

Patrik Hartl
Birth Date:	10 September 1976
Birth Place:	Olomouc, Czech Republic
Education:	Film and TV School, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Known For:	writer, playwright, theatre and film director
Notable Works:	Gazelles, 15 years of love, The Best Weekend; Moments of Happiness; The Prague Lexicon of Love; Doofus, Smarty, Dotty and Carl – novels An Adriatic Honeymoon; 4 Sisters; The Vacuum Cleaner; The Star; Private Talks About Happiness – theatre plays
Awards:	the Czech Best Seller Award (2014, 2016, 2018, 2021)

Patrik Hartl (born 10 September 1976 Olomouc) is a contemporary Czech novelist, playwright and theatre director.

Life and career

Patrik Hartl studied film and TV directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.^[1]

He lives and works in Prague. He has written and (as his own director) staged eight comedies, all of which have become box-office hits.^[2] Since 2000, he has been an in-house playwright and director at the Studio DVA theatre,^[3] an independent theatre company based on Wenceslas Square in central Prague.

His novels have five times won the Czech Best Seller Award for the best-selling new book in the Czech Republic.^[4]

Works

Theatre comedies

(Translations of titles for informational purposes only.)

Hovory o štěstí mezi čtyřma očima (Private Talks About Happiness; 2004)
Večírek na Seině (A Party on the Seine; 2005)^[5]
Klára a Bára (Klára and Bára; 2006)
Soukromý skandál (A Private Scandal; 2011)
Hlava v písku (Head in Sand; 2013)
Hvězda (The Star; 2013)
Vysavač (The Vacuum Cleaner; 2015)
4 sestry (4 Sisters; 2016)
Líbánky na Jadranu (An Adriatic Honeymoon; 2017)
Lovci bobrů (Beaver Hunters, 2022)^[6]

Novels^[7]