Torčík Marek

Marek Torčík (b. 1993) is a poet, novelist and journalist. He comes from Přerov and lives in Prague, where he studied Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University. His collection of poems Rhizomy [Rhizomes] appeared in 2016; since then, he has mainly published prose and poems in magazines. In 2018 and 2020, he was one of ten finalists in the Czecho-Slovakian poetry competition Básne SK/CZ. His debut novel Rozložíš paměť [Memory Burn] won the Magnesia Litera Award for Prose and the Jiří Orten Award and was selected as a competition extract for the Susanna Roth Award. The rights to its translation have been sold for at least 27 languages.

Works translated into: English, Latvian, Serbian, Greek, Spanish, Dutch, Slovak, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Romanian, German.

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