Jiří Hájíček (born 11 September 1967 in
České Budějovice
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) is a contemporary
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writer. He started writing poetry in the 1980s in a youth poetry programme hosted by Mirek Kovářík.
He won the 2006
Magnesia Litera
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prize for
prose
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with his novel ''Selský baroko''.
In the European Society of Authors' 2013 Finnegan's List,
Jaroslav Rudiš
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Rudiš became known after publishing his first novel '' Nebe pod Berlínem'' ("The Sky under Berlin") in 2002, the tale of a Czech teacher who chooses to lea ...
selected Hájíček's 2012 novel ''Rybí krev'' (''Fish Blood'') to be more widely translated into European languages.
''Rybí krev'' also won the Magnesia Litera Book of the Year for 2013.
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
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
References
External links
Official Website in English
1967 births
Living people
Czech novelists
Czech male novelists
Czech male writers
Magnesia Litera winners
Writers from České Budějovice
University of South Bohemia alumni
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