Hořava Matěj

Matěj Hořava (b. 1980) lives abroad and writes under a pseudonym. Having worked as a teacher in Czech villages in the Banat region, since 2013 he has lived and worked primarily in Tbilisi, Georgia. Pálenka [Distilled Spirit], Hořava’s debut work of fiction, was popular with domestic readers and critics alike; it earned him the DILIA Litera for Newcomer of the Year and the Czech Book of the Year award for 2015. In Mezipřistání [Stopover] (2020), his second work of fiction, Hořava turns his attention to Georgia. This work was nominated for both the Magnesia Litera for Fiction and the European Union Prize for Literature. To date, both works have been published in eight languages.

Works translated into: Bulgarian, Croatian, German, Hungarian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish.