Authors & Works

Jaroslav Rudiš: End of Punk in Helsinki

Translation: Teťjána Okopná

The novel is following the stories of two characters – a pubertal punker girl growing up in the period of decaying socialism in the frontier town of Jeseník and of an aging bar-owner Oleho from an East-German town at the turn of the millennium. Their lives are fatally crossing after a concert of the music group Die toten Hosen.

Petr Šabach: Gówno się pali

Translation: Teťjána Okopná

A contemporary Czech writer, a follower of the Hrabal tradition. He studied at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague. He worked as a technical editor in Pragokoncert, a methodologist of a cultural house, night watchman at the National Gallery, during the years 1988 – 2001 a specialist of the City Gallery of Prague. Since 2001 he has been a freelance writer, leading simultaneously a seminar of creative writing by the Literary Academy of J. Škvorecký. Several successful films were shot on base of his literary work, namely Šakalí léta (The Jackal Years), Pelíšky (Cosy Dens) and others.

Petr Placák: Fízl

Translation: Teťjána Okopná

Jan Balabán: Povídky

Translation: Hana Veličko

Daniel Kaiser: Disident Václav Havel

Translation: Teťjána Okopná, nakladatelství Tempora, 2012