Petr Hruška
Petr Hruška (born June 7, 1964 in Ostrava ) is a Czech poet and literary scholar .
Life
Petr Hruška studied at the Technical University of Ostrava (graduated in 1987) and from 1990–1994 Czech literature and literary studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Ostrava and graduated with a master's degree . This was followed by a doctorate at Masaryk University in Brno with a dissertation on surrealism in the post-war period. Hruška works at the Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno . He is a member of the editorial board of the literary magazine Host and was editor of the magazine Obrácená strana měsíce .
Hruška lives in Ostrava . His wife, Yvetta Ellerová, is a singer and composer . His twin brother is the literary critic Pavel Hruška. Petr Hruška has two children.
Works
Petr Hruška says: “Poetry is not an adornment of life.” Poetry has to “disturb, surprise, surprise, unsettle, tear down existing aesthetic satisfaction patterns and invent new ones.” The poet Ivan Wernisch wrote about Hruška's work: “Verses succeed without superfluities without lyrical agitation. "
Hruška has published several collections of poetry and published poems in various literary magazines. His poems have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Slovenian, Dutch and Polish, among others. In 1998 he was awarded the Dresden Poetry Prize and in 2009 the Jan Skácel Prize. In 2013 , Hruška was awarded the Czech State Prize for Literature for the book of poems Darmata .
Poetry
- Obývací nepokoje (non-living room) Sfinga, Ostrava 1995, with drawings by Adam Plaček
- Měsíce (months) Host, Brno 1998, with drawings by Zdeněk Janošec-Benda
- Vždycky se ty dveře zavíraly (This door was always closed) Host, Brno 2002, with drawings by Daniel Balabán
- Zelený svetr (Green Sweater) Host, Brno 2004 - collection of the first three volumes of poetry, illustrations: Hana Puchová, foreword: Jiří Trávníček
- Auta vjíždějí do lodí (Cars drive in ships) Host, Brno 2007 - Illustrations: Jakub Špaňhel
- Darmata (Darmata) Host, Brno 2012 - Illustrations: Katarína Szanyi
- Nevlastní (stepson) Argo, Prague 2017
prose
- Jedna věta (One movement), Revolver Revue, Prague 2015
Literary monographs
- Někde tady. Český básník Karel Šiktanc (Here somewhere. The poet Karel Šiktanc ) Host, Brno 2010
German editions
- Call Jarek. Poems . From the Czech. by Reiner Kunze . Ed. Pongratz, Hauzenberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-931883-64-5
- Home somewhere. Poems . From the Czech. by Martina Lisa with Kerstin Becker . Edition Azur, Dresden 2019, ISBN 978-3-942375-38-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.radio.cz/cz/clanek/91712
- ^ Zelený svetr, cover
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Petr Hruška in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Conversation with Petr Hruška (Czech)
- Petr Hruška on CzechLit (Czech)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hruška, Petr |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech poet and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ostrava |