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Frankfurt Book Fair
Guest of Honour 2026

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Guest of Honour

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    Czechia 2026, presentation
    • Czech Extravaganza
    • Fellehner Christopher
      Kelbl Marita
      Lomová Lucie
      Lučanská Lucie
      Ross Mikael
      Winkel Lena
      Witiak Tomek Witiak

    • EN
    • Venue:
      Romanfabrik, Frankfurt am Main
  • In an evening of comics and drawing, the audience will get better acquainted with the work of selected Czech comics authors and illustrators, experience live drawing with musical accompaniment, and have the chance to get...
    • Moderates: Jacob Hoffmann
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    Czechia 2026, debate
    • What Does Literature from the Margins Bring? Stories of Czech and Slovak Roma from the Second World War to the Present
    • Banga Patrik
      Ryvolová Karolína
      Tučková Kateřina

    • CZ / EN / DE
    • Venue:
      Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
  • Roma literature has long been overlooked within the Czech literary scene. A significant turning point came with Patrik Banga's autobiographical book The True Way Out (Skutečná cesta ven), which won the Magnesia Lite...
    • Moderates: David Vaughan
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    Czechia 2026, debate
    • POEŽIJE, or Spirits in the Mist: new poetry from Czechia
    • Lisa Martina
      Miesenböck Julia
      Pusch Daniela
      Thill Hans

    • CZ / DE
    • Venue:
      Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Shore Stage
  • Poetry lives – and where else but in Czechia! Poetry – the shining beacon of Czech literature; a starting point and reference point, a way to go. Perhaps it is no wonder that the only Czech winner of the Nobel ...
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      Czechia 2026, debate
      • Reading as a national discipline: how to promote reading, and why we need to read in depth today
      • Kovač Mihael
        Vopěnka Martin

      • EN
      • Venue:
        Frankfurter Buchmesse - Tschechischer Nationalstand 3.1 / C65
    • Czechia and Slovenia are countries with a vibrant reading culture. Even so, reading faces new challenges in both: the distracting influence of digital technologies, a decline in reading with regularity, a ...
      • Moderates: Guillaume Basset
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      Czechia 2026, debate
      • The Czech-German Future Fund presents: ‘Grenzgänger’ – cultural commuters tell their stories of Czech-German inspiration
      • Becker Martin
        Rudiš Jaroslav

      • DE
      • Venue:
        Frankfurter Buchmesse - Global Stage, Foyer 5.1/6.1
    • Anyone who wishes to understand Europe must be familiar with the viewpoints of their neighbours. Two winners of the Czech-German Journalism Prize will show how literature and cross-border encounters help spark an interes...
      • Moderates: Susanne Sehlbach, Tomáš Jelínek
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      Czechia 2026, concert
    • CZ
      • Martina Trchová
      • Trchová Martina

      • Venue:
        Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
    • Martina Trchová is a singer, guitarist, songwriter and visual artist. Her music blends experimental folk, blues, indie pop and jazz. Her album 90 % štěstí was nominated for the Czech Anděl Music Award in 2025. She p...
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        Czechia 2026, reading
      • CZ / DE
      • Lucie Hášová Truhelková
        • Struwwelpeter Museum: Lucie Hášová Truhelková
        • Frankenberg Christina
          Hášová Truhelková Lucie

        • Venue:
          Struwwelpeter Museum, Frankfurt
      • Czech author Lucie Hášová Truhelková will present her new German translation of Der Opa mit der rosa Hose at the Struwwelpeter Museum. Lucie Hášová Truhelková, Christina Frankenberg
        • Moderates: Christina Frankenberg
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        Czechia 2026, debate
      • CZ / EN
        • The child as uncompromising comic book critic
        • Čupová Kateřina
          Illnerová Kateřina
          Stibitzová Petra Josefína

        • Venue:
          Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Shore Stage
      • With the coming of the new millennium, some creators of Czech comic books turned away from their child readerships to pursue the possibilities of the medium for adults. For a while at least, the discipline behind le...
        • Moderates: Kateřina Čopjaková
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        Czechia 2026, reading
      • CZ / DE
        • Wars of words and images in books for children and young people
        • Pilátová Markéta
          Soffer Podzimek Eliška

        • Venue:
          Frankfurter Buchmesse - Tschechischer Nationalstand 3.1 / C65
      • As World War II ends, in the forests of Moravia’s Jeseníky Mountains a mysterious duplex creature called Fungus Woman awakens to help some children in trouble. She takes in the orphaned Jewish girl Heike, her Czech ...
        • German reading: Laura Richter
        • Moderates: Libuše Černá
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        Czechia 2026, reading
      • CZ / DE
        • Captive in the role: stereotypes and identity in Czech fiction
        • Kaprálová Dora
          Kausc Emma
          Maňák Vratislav

        • Venue:
          Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
      • Contemporary Czech fiction explores differences and intersections in gender experience. Dora Kaprálová, Vratislav Maňák and Ema Kausc discuss the manifestation and breaking of gender stereotypes. They pose various questi...
        • Moderates: Tino Dallmann
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        Czechia 2026, reading
      • CZ / DE
        • Captive in the role: stereotypes and identity in Czech fiction
        • Kaprálová Dora
          Kausc Emma
          Maňák Vratislav

        • Venue:
          Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
      • Contemporary Czech fiction explores differences and intersections in gender experience. Dora Kaprálová, Vratislav Maňák and Ema Kausc discuss the manifestation and breaking of gender stereotypes. They pose various questi...
        • Moderates: Tino Dallmann
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        Czechia 2026, reading
      • CZ / DE
      • Magda Garguláková
        • Struwwelpeter Muzeum: Magda Garguláková
        • Frankenberg Christina
          Garguláková Magda

        • Venue:
          Struwwelpeter Museum, Frankfurt
      • Czech author Magda Garguláková will present her new German translations Brücken, Alles über die Hand and Woraus besteht das? at the Struwwelpeter Museum. Magda Garguláková, moderation Christina Frankenberg
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