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Guest of Honour 2026

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Guest of Honour

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    Czechia 2026, reading
  • DE
  • Radka Denemarková: Schokoladenblut
    • Radka Denemarková: Chocolate Blood (author’s reading and discussion)
    • Denemarková Radka
      Profousová Eva

    • Venue:
      Stadtbücherei Frankfurt - Zentralbibliothek
  • Radka Denemarková is one of the most significant voices in contemporary Czech literature. She has received numerous awards for her work as a novelist, essayist and translator. In her new novel Čokoládová krev [Choco...
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    • DE
    • Radka Denemarková
      • Radka Denemarková: Schokoladenblut (Lesung und Gespräch)
      • Denemarková Radka
        Profousová Eva

      • Venue:
        Stadtbücherei Frankfurt - Zentralbibliothek
    • Radka Denemarková zählt zu den wichtigsten Stimmen der tschechischen Gegenwartsliteratur, für ihre Arbeit als Schriftstellerin, Essayistin und Übersetzerin wurde sie vielfach ausgezeichnet. In ihrem neuen Roman Schokolad...
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      • DE
      • Tereza Semotamová: Radikale Bedürfnisse
        • open books zur Frankfurter Buchmesse
        • Semotamová Tereza

        • Venue:
          Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt
      • Tereza Semotamová liest aus ihrem Roman "Radikale Bedürfnisse"
        • Moderates: Mirko Schwanitz
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        Czechia 2026, debate
        • The theme of exile as an evergreen of Czech literature. Why can’t it do without it?
        • Bałdyga Zofia
          Mecco Martina
          Rubeš Jan

        • CZ / EN
        • Venue:
          Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
      • How diverse is Czech exile literature, what forms has it taken in history, and why can’t Czech literature do without it? How many waves of Czech exile are there? What is life in exile like for writers and artists? Is Cze...
        • Moderates: Olga Pavlova
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        Czechia 2026, debate
      • CZ / DE
      • Jáchym Topol
        • When life begins to come apart: an interview with Jáchym Topol about his novel Hell Does Not Exist
        • Topol Jáchym

        • Venue:
          Frankfurter Buchmesse
      • Prague journalist Tomáš is in crisis. His long marriage is falling apart, he is trying and failing to break up with a young lover, and his position as editor at an investigative magazine is under threat. Then the Ru...
        • Moderates: Tilman Spreckelsen
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        reading
      • DE
        • Buchpräsentation "Fritz Seemann. Wir sind hier in einer Mausefalle."
        • Kraus Anette
          Skriebeleit Jörg

        • Venue:
          Stand des Deutsch-Tschechischen Zukunftsfonds, Halle 3.1 C74
      • Buchpräsentation "Fritz Seemann. Wir sind hier in einer Mausefalle. Ein Journalist beim Prager Tagblatt und seine gescheiterte Flucht aus der Tschechoslowakei" Die Autorin Annette Kraus wird zusammen mit dem Mitherausgeb...
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          Czechia 2026, debate
          • Pearls of the deep: works of Czech literature that remain untranslated
          • EN / DE
          • Venue:
            Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Shore Stage
        • A look at Czech literature in translation raises questions of the extent to which voices translated into German are truly representative of the Czech literary scene. Which authors are translated, and which have so f...
          • Moderates: Susa Wolfrum, Jana Krötzsch
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          Czechia 2026, reading
        • CZ / DE
        • Jiří Dvořák
          • Struwwelpeter Museum: Jiří Dvořák
          • Dvořák Jiří
            Frankenberg Christina

          • Venue:
            Struwwelpeter Museum, Frankfurt
        • Czech author Jiří Dvořák will present his new German translations of Myko and So schlafen die Tiere at the Struwwelpeter Museum. Jiří Dvořák, moderation: Christina Frankenberg
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            Czechia 2026, concert
          • CZ
            • Mário Bihári: Díky Zuzce Navarové
            • Bihári Mário
              Fialová Bára
              Fiedler David

            • Venue:
              Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
          • Mário Bihári: Díky Zuzce Navarové is a tribute to Zuzana Navarová and the music of her band KOA, blending folk, world music and Latin rhythms. Mário Bihári, Barbora Fialová and David Fiedler revive her songs in thei...
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              Czechia 2026, debate
              • Freelance writing: sustainable profession or big risk?
              • Roschal Slata
                Vlasáková Klára

              • CZ / EN
              • Venue:
                Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Shore Stage
            • Can writing fiction be a full-fledged, sustainable profession, or is it a precarious balancing act? What is a writer’s material and social reality? Successful members of a writing community will discu...
              • Moderates: Anna Luňáková
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              Czechia 2026, debate
              • Czech literature series issued by foreign publishing houses
              • Cikán Ondřej
                De Vito Alessandro
                Różewicz Julia

              • CZ / EN / DE
              • Venue:
                Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
            • Czech literature can draw on the long-standing cooperation of several publishing houses abroad that specialize in works by Czech writers. These include Afera (Poland), Miraggi (Italy) and Kētos (Austria). All three were ...
              • Moderates: Martin Janeček
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              debate
              • Gastland Tschechien: Die Geister der Geschichte
              • DE
              • Venue:
                Frankfurter Buchmesse
            • Radka Denemarková und Jaroslav Rudiš, zwei der bedeutendsten Stimmen der zeitgenössischen tschechischen Literatur, im Gespräch über rasende Züge, sprechende Gräber und die Frage, warum uns die Geschichte Mitteleuropas ni...
              • Moderates: Doris Akrap
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