Jiří Hájíček
Jiří Hájíček
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]
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
- 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
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