Czech life and culture
Marek Lollok, PdF MU


Simon Mawer
- The Glass Room: http://www.simonmawer.com/TheGlassRoom.htm
- Mendel´s Dwarf: http://www.simonmawer.com/Mendel.htm

Readers and reading in the Czech Republic
- public libraries (2013): 5.381
- loans (thousands): 64.208
- registered readers per thousand inhabitants: 136,1
- loans per thousand inhabitants: 6.109

Titles published
- total titles (2013): 17.876
- fiction: 5.190
- fiction share: 29%
- titles published per thousand inhabitants: 1,7

Reading (2013)
- 84% read at least one book over the year
- 32% visited at least one public library
- domestic libraries: 250 volumes
- 33 minutes reading books per day
- number of book purchased: 2,3 volumes

Reading (2013)
- the most popular autor: Michal Viewegh
- the most popular book: Betty McDonald: The Egg and I

Michal Viewegh
- novelist, playwright, screenwriter
- born on 31st March 1962 in Prague
- full-time writer
- 2012 suffered an aortic dissection
-http://www.viewegh.cz/en/knihy.php
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Milan Kundera
- born on 1st April 1929 in Brno
- http://www.kundera.de/english/Bibliography/bibliography.html
- Czech-French writer
-exile in France since 1975
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Václav Havel
- 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011
- Czech writer, playwright, statesman
- „Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred“

Bohumil Hrabal
- 28 March 1914 in Brno – 3 February 1997 in Prague
- studied law; worked as an insurance agent, manual labourer, paper-packer, stagehand…
- Pearls of the Deep; Palaverers
-film adaptations by J. Menzel
- Closely Observed Trains
- I Served the English King

Jaroslav Seifert
- 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986
- writer, poet and journalist
- 1986 Nobel Prize–winner

Karel Čapek
- 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938
- writer, playwright, dramatist, essayist, journalist, literary reviewer, and art critic
- the word robot in his play R.U.R.
- The Makropulos Affair; The White Disease

War with the Newts
- science fiction novel
- people x salamanders
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Jaroslav Hašek
- April 30, 1883 – January 3, 1923
- writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian and anarchist

The Good Soldier Švejk
Josef Švejk by Josef Lada


Franz Kafka
- 3 July 1883 in Prague – 3 June 1924
- German-language writer
- The Metamorphosis
- The Trial
- The Castle

Děkuji za pozornost!
Marek Lollok, PdF MU
marek.lollok@seznam.cz