Jiří Kratochvil

Jiří Kratochvil (2017)

Jiří Kratochvil (* 1940 in Brno ) is a Czech writer.

Life

The son of a Russian emigrant lives in Brno to this day, where most of his novels are set. After studying in Brno, he began to publish in the mid-1960s. From 1968 to 1989, like many Czech authors, he was banned from publishing. Kratochvil, however, continued to publish, in underground publishers - in " Samizdat ".

The prose writer, playwright, essayist and radio play author was one of the most important representatives of Czech postmodernism in the 1990s. In 1991 he received the British Tom Stoppard Prize and in 1999 the Jaroslav Seifert Prize , the highest literary award in the Czech Republic.

Meanwhile his novels have also been translated into German.

Works

• Má lásko, postmoderno , Atlantis, Brno 1994, ISBN 80-7108-093-4 (Czech; My love, postmodernism [stories]).
• Singing in the middle of the night . Roman, Rowohlt, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87134-241-6 .
• Siamský příběh , Atlantis, Brno 1996, ISBN 80-7108-114-0 (Czech; A Siamese story ).
• Immortal History or the Life of Sonia Trotsky Collectors or Carousel . Roman, Ammann, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-250-60027-X .
• The sad god . Roman, Ammann, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-250-60084-9 .
• Brno stories . Braumüller, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-99200-001-2 .
• The architect's promise . Roman, Braumüller, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-99200-005-0 .
• Femme fatale . Roman, Braumüller, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-99200-050-0 .
• Good night, sweet dreams . Roman, Braumüller, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-99200-147-7 .
• The Newfoundland Cause . Stories, translated by Nina Ritschl, Wieser Verlag , Klagenfurt 2019, ISBN 978-3-99029-333-1 .
• The vile wickedness of being . Roman, translated by Kathrin Janka, Braumüller, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-99200-234-4 .

Memberships

• Obec spisovatelů (Czech Writers' Union)

See also

• List of Czech writers
• Mareile Ahrndt: “The lack of pull of a really big name. Generation change: contemporary Czech literature fights against the past and against the bestsellers of the present ”, in: Die Welt [1] (published on October 25, 1997).

literature

• Wolfgang F. Schwarz: "Neofantastic in New Czech Literature - or Borges, Escher, Kratochvil", in: Alfonso de Toro, Fernando de Toro (eds.), El Siglo de Borges , vol. I. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert 1999, pp. 425-438, ISBN 978-8495107619 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jiří Kratochvil in the catalog of the German National Library