Who are We and Who Are We Not? Complications and Contradictions of Polish, Slovak, and Czech National NarrativesAre dominant Polish narratives still stuck in a noble imaginary that represses the memory of a wartime and post-WWII revolution that created the Polish middle class? Are Slovak national narratives still immersed in a bucolic ideal that has […]
Select a poem that deals with the topic of PHOTOSYNTHESIS. You may use any interpretation of the word. The poem must be a published work. You must not be the author. The poem should be no longer than one side of A4. Email: contact@pragueliterarycalendar.com Facebook: Post to this event page. Submissions will be shared on […]
The Feminist Book Club meet to discuss the memoir by Gisele Pelicot. The extraordinarily powerful memoir by a heroine of our times, whose story inspires change, compassion and courage. One November day, Gisèle Pelicot was called to a local police station and life as she knew it ended. Her husband of fifty years had been […]
V úterý 28. dubna 2026 od 18 hodin vystoupí v dolním sále Ústavu pro českou literaturu AV ČR (Na Florenci 3, Praha 1) Brian Goodman (Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University; Arizona State University) s přednáškou nazvanou „The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain“.Vstup na přednášku v angličtině je zdarma a […]
Our Final Event for the TRY Program (Theater Reconnecting with Youth) was an astounding success!Attendees learned more about us (Vice Versa) , our NGO work, and the 2-Year TRY Program that was co-funded by Creative Europe!And now…We are holding 2 more “must-attend” FREE, Fun & Informative Workshops on the topics of Art, Money, Activism, Youth […]
Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding ‘fathers’ of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he’s the inventor of ‘ice-nine’, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker’s three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. […]
We usually discuss and arrange details in whatsapp – if you would like to join please message Lydia Titterington or email Prague Literary Calendar contact@pragueliterarycalendar.com, and we can send you the link to join.A classic of Mexican modern literature about a haunted village.As one enters Juan Rulfo’s legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to […]
We are looking forward to hosting a Meet the Author event for Santanu Bhattacharya on May 3rd at 7pm.Mr. Bhattacharya has written two novels: One Small Voice, which was the Observer Best Debut Novel for 2023 and also shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and Deviants, which won the Rainbow Award and […]
Love books? So do we! 📚✨Join our laid-back monthly book meet-up — no pressure to finish (or even start!) a book to come along. We chat about our favourite reads, swap books, share recommendations, and just enjoy some great company and conversation.We usually meet on the first Thursday of each month, and there’s always something […]
The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures cordially invities everyone interested to a discussion panel and a poetry reading with three acclaimed poets based in Scotland: Annie Brechin, Rob A. Mackenzie, and Medha Singh. The panelists will share their experiences with writing and publishing and read from their own works. As Blue Diode Press, founded […]
Set in the anarchic world opened up by America’s westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account of the barbarous violence that man visits upon man. Through the hostile landscape of the Texas-Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide […]
Friend of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel, and many other Czech and Slovak fighters for democracy, William Luers, who passed away a year ago, would have turned 97 on May 15th. During his more than thirty-year long diplomatic career, Bill Luers held, among other positions, the positions of Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and […]
