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SUMMARY:ANDREI CODRESCU / READING
DESCRIPTION:ANDREI CODRESCU is an American novelist\, essayist\, poet and film maker.\nThe New York Times Book Review called Codrescu “One of our most talented and magical writers\,” who “manages to be brilliant and insightful\, tough and seductive about American culture.”\nAn immigrant to the U.S. from Romania\, he was honored by the Carnegie Foundation with The Heritage Award\, has won a Peabody Award for his film “Road Scholar\,” is the winner of three Pushcart Prizes (including the 50th anniversary)\, was recipient of the Ovid Prize\, was long-listed for the National Book Award in poetry\, and has received praise for his poetry and fiction from Kay Boyle\, Alicia Ostriker\, Anselm Hollo\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, E.M. Cioran\, Mary Carr\, Jim Harrison\, Tom Robbins\, Ariel Dorfman\, William Burroughs\, Mircea Cartarescu\, Elizabeth McCracken\, Spalding Grey and Jonathan Raban.\nHe founded the magazine “Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books & Ideas” (1983-2016)\, has been a senior commentator for NPR’s “All Things Considered” (1983-2016) and is MacCurdy Distinguished Professor Emeritus at LSU\, Baton Rouge. Among many other books\, Codrescu has published four novels\, three of them with Simon & Schuster\, and one with Algonquin. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York.\nFor this reading\, his book No Dog (2026) will be available for purchase and signing. No Dog is limited-edition poetry featuring 22 poems and 23 pieces of art by Peruvian-American artist Catherine Tafur. Published by Sacred Parasite. \nProjekt podpořila měststká část Praha 5.
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/andrei-codrescu-reading/
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Den poezie festival - reading in English
DESCRIPTION:POETRY READING by Irish poet Ger Reidy\, US poet Stephan Delbos\, and Czech poet Sylva Fischerová. Followed by an open mic. \nThe event is part of the Poetry Day (Den poezie) festival\, which takes place over two weeks in November in over 50 towns throughout the republic. Since its beginnings in 1999\, the festival has grown into a nationwide celebration involving libraries\, schools\, cultural institutions\, community groups and individual organisers. This year’s programme is as geographically diverse as it is varied in form: alongside readings and meetings with poets\, it includes poetry walks\, quizzes\, public interventions and opportunities for people of all ages to take part themselves. This year the festival lasts from 9 – 22. 11. and the theme is inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem – My letter to the World (můj dopis svět).\nMost of the events are in Czech\, but there are always a few English-friendly events. This year\, a reading on 12th November at 7.30 in L’Objet trouvé cafe in Prague 7\, with Irish poet Ger Reidy\, US poet Stephan Delbos\, and Czech poet Sylva Fischerová. Followed by an open mic. At 10 am on Saturday 21st November\, there is a guided walk ‘Prague through the eyes of its poets’ by professional guide and poet Lyn Davidson. All events are free.
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/den-poezie-festival-reading-in-english/
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Tichý\, introvertní večer na památku Emily Dickinsonové
DESCRIPTION:Letos si připomínáme významné výročí – 140 let od úmrtí proslulé americké básnířky Emily Dickinsonové. Právě z její básně „This is my letter to the World“ (Toto je můj dopis světu) jsme převzali název letošního ročníku festivalu Den poezie. Její poezie\, tichá a introvertní\, za jejího života z velké části nevydaná\, měla obrovský dopad a dodnes oslovuje čtenáře po celém světě. \nPřijďte na tento večer se svou oblíbenou básní Emily Dickinsonové – v jakémkoli jazyce – a připojte se k nám při vzpomínce na tuto výjimečnou ženu 19. století\, která nám má co říci i dnes. Možná dnes dokonce ještě více. \nVečer se zúčastní čeští i zahraniční básníci a básnířky z festivalu\, mimo jiné Josef Straka a Vít Janota\, a také současná rezidentka projektu Praha – město literatury Isobelle Carmody. Zpívat a hrát bude Adelaide Carmody Štolba. \nVíce na http://www.denpoezie.cz
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/tichy-introvertni-vecer-na-pamatku-emily-dickinsonove/
LOCATION:Literární Kavárna Týnská\, Literární Kavárna Týnská
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Free guided literary walk - Prague through the eyes of its poets
DESCRIPTION:Part of the annual nationwide poetry festival Den poezie – no charge to participate.\nTake a walking tour and explore the places associated with many of the poets who have lived in or loved Prague over its long history. Your guide\, Lyn Davidson\, is a San Francisco-based journalist\, poet\, and tour guide. On this approximately 2-hour tour\, we will walk through beloved tourist places like Kampa and Charles Bridge\, as well as some obscure corners of the city\, always paying tribute to the spirits of the poets who have loved it through sharing details of their lives\, loves\, and words. We’ll get to know poets who include Jaroslav Seifert (Nobel Prize 1984)\, Karel Hynek Mácha (the Czech Byron)\, Jiří Orten (tragically killed by the Nazis at age 22)\, Vítězslav Nezval\, Egon Bondy\, Viola Fischerová\, Vladimir Holan\, Karel Kryl\, and Ivan Martin Jirous (“Magor”)\, as well as foreign poets like Andre Breton and Allen Ginsburg\, on whom the city also left its mark.\nMeet in front of the hotel U Tří pštrosů (Dražického náměstí 76/12\, 118 00 Praha 1) on the Malá strana side of Charles Bridge.
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/free-guided-literary-walk-prague-through-the-eyes-of-its-poets/
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Free guided literary walk - Prague through the eyes of its poets
DESCRIPTION:Take a walking tour and explore the places associated with many of the poets who have lived in or loved Prague over its long history. Your guide\, Lyn Davidson\, is a San Francisco-based journalist\, poet\, and tour guide. On this approximately 2-hour tour\, we will walk through beloved tourist places like Kampa and Charles Bridge\, as well as some obscure corners of the city\, always paying tribute to the spirits of the poets who have loved it through sharing details of their lives\, loves\, and words. We’ll get to know poets who include Jaroslav Seifert (Nobel Prize 1984)\, Karel Hynek Mácha (the Czech Byron)\, Jiří Orten (tragically killed by the Nazis at age 22)\, Vítězslav Nezval\, Egon Bondy\, Viola Fischerová\, Vladimir Holan\, Karel Kryl\, and Ivan Martin Jirous (“Magor”)\, as well as foreign poets like Andre Breton and Allen Ginsburg\, on whom the city also left its mark.
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/free-guided-literary-walk-prague-through-the-eyes-of-its-poets-2/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
DESCRIPTION:Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final war. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes\, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali—who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries\, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world\, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before. \nThe Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations—whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust\, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow\, animals will run\, and people will learn to survive the planet’s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly.
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/dawn-by-octavia-e-butler/
LOCATION:Globe Bookstore and Cafe\, Globe Bookstore and Cafe
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Read & Riff: The Book Club for Short Story Lovers
DESCRIPTION:When does fear become more dangerous than the thing we are afraid of?\nCan our desire for safety end up destroying us?\nWho is the real enemy when fear takes control? \nExplore these questions and more at the next Read & Riff session on 27 November 2026.  \nRead & Riff is a book club for short story lovers. We come together to share what we loved\, hated\, questioned and everything in between about a selected story. \nIn this special edition\, we’re bringing together literature and music from 1980s South Africa with a short story by a Nobel Prize-winning author and an iconic song from the same time. (links to the story and lyrics below) \nRead the short story and listen to the song in advance\, then join Debbie (your host)\, who will bring questions and a few creative exercises to guide the discussion and keep the conversation flowing. \nThere are no experts\, no homework beyond reading and listening to the selected work before the session\, and no right answers. Just good stories\, powerful music and even better conversations.\nJoin us! \nDate: 27 November 2026\nTime: 18:30 – 21:30\nPlace: Nerd Alert\, Bulharská 924/26\, 101 00 Praha 10-Vršovice\nFee: 50czk per person \nStory: Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer (https://blogs.ubc.ca/lled4492017/files/2017/05/Once-Upon-a-Time.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com)\nSong: Weeping by Bright Blue (https://genius.com/Bright-blue-weeping-lyrics) \nPlease mark yourself as ‘going’ in the Facebook/meet up events so we can make sure we have enough space.
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/read-riff-the-book-club-for-short-story-lovers-4/
CATEGORIES:Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261203T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261203T230000
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SUMMARY:CIBCA Social Book Club Christmas special!
DESCRIPTION:CIBCA Christmas Social Book Club 📚✨ \nLove books\, good company and a bit of festive fun? Join us for our December Book Club with a Christmas twist! \nAs always\, we’ll be chatting about our latest reads\, swapping books and sharing recommendations. This time\, you’re also welcome to bring along a favourite poem to share with the group! \nAnd to get us into the Christmas spirit\, we’ve got a few festive extras planned: \n🎅 Dress Festive! – Dig out your favourite Christmas jumper\, Santa hat or anything that makes you feel festive!\n🎁 Yankee Swap (Secret Santa) – Bring a small\, wrapped gift worth 150–200 Kč if you’d like to join our Christmas gift exchange.\n📚 Books & Poetry – Share what you’ve been reading\, bring a book to swap or read us a favourite poem. \nAs always\, everything is optional! Haven’t finished a book? No problem. Just fancy coming along for a chat? Even better! We’re a relaxed\, friendly bunch and everyone is welcome. \nFree to join – just bring yourself and your Christmas spirit!\nLooking forward to seeing you all! \nMartina 🎄
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/cibca-social-book-club-christmas-special/
LOCATION:The Three Fiddles\, The Three Fiddles
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:White Nights by Dostoevsky
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday 5th December\, 16.00 at Ouky Douky Coffee to discuss White Nights by Dostoevsky.  \nIn the luminous summer nights of St. Petersburg\, a lonely dreamer encounters a troubled young woman. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky’s “White Nights” unfolds as an intimate tale of four evenings that hover between hope and melancholy. Through shared confidences and tender moments\, the bond between Nastenka and the nameless narrator grows into something as fragile as it is profound. As she awaits her long-absent fiancé\, their connection deepens into a love story that captures the ache of what cannot be. \nThis 1848 novella captures the poignant space between romantic fantasy and reality in Dostoevsky’s distinctive prose\, leaving readers with an unforgettable meditation on solitude and the fleeting nature of love. \nIf you would like to join the Prague In-Person Book Club write to contact@pragueliterarycalendar.com and we can invite you to our whatsapp group.
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/white-nights-by-dostoevsky/
LOCATION:Ouky Douky Coffee\, Ouky Douky Coffee
CATEGORIES:Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261208T193000
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SUMMARY:Multilingual Poetry Open Stage
DESCRIPTION:Join us for another great evening of poetry. All languages are welcome!!! You can bring your texts\, texts you like\, translations\, anything… and bring your friends!!!\nAfter @Scott\, @Danielle\, and @Willie\, this month our MC will be @Julie!
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/multilingual-poetry-open-stage-4/
LOCATION:Kafe nůžky papír\, Kafe nůžky papír
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:In The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani.
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday 9th January\, 16.00 at Ouky Douky Coffee to discuss In The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani. \nThe award-winning\, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny–a passionate interracial love story between a Moroccan soldier who fought for France in World War II and a French woman whose fierce desire for autonomy parallels colonial Morocco’s fight for independence. \nThe world of men is just like the world of botany. In the end\, one species dominates another. One day\, the orange will win out over the lemon\, or vice versa\, and the tree will once again produce fruit that people can eat. \nMathilde\, a spirited young Frenchwoman\, falls in love with Amine\, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during World War II. After the war\, the couple settles in Morocco. While Amine tries to cultivate his family farm’s rocky terrain\, Mathilde feels her vitality sapped by the isolation\, the harsh climate\, the lack of money\, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. Left increasingly alone to raise her two children in a world whose rules she does not understand\, and with her daughter taunted at school by rich French girls for her secondhand clothes and unruly hair\, Mathilde goes from being reduced to a farmer’s wife to defying the country’s chauvinism and repressive social codes by offering medical services to the rural population. \nAs tensions mount between the Moroccans and the French colonists\, Amine finds himself caught in the crossfire: in solidarity with his Moroccan workers yet also a landowner\, despised by the French yet married to a Frenchwoman\, and proud of his wife’s resolve but ashamed by her refusal to be subjugated. All of them live in the country of others–especially the women\, forced to live in the land of men–and with this novel\, Leïla Slimani issues the first salvo in their emancipation. \nIf you would like to join the Prague In-Person Book Club write to contact@pragueliterarycalendar.com and we can invite you to our whatsapp group.
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/in-the-country-of-others-by-leila-slimani/
LOCATION:Ouky Douky Coffee\, Ouky Douky Coffee
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:James by Percival Everett
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday 6th February\, 16.00 at Ouky Douky Coffee to discuss James by Percival Everett. \nPULITZER PRIZE WINNER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A brilliant\, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\, both harrowing and darkly humorous\, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view • In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg \nKIRKUS PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review\, LA Times\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The Economist\, TIME\, and more. \n“Genius”—The Atlantic • “A masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature\, while also being a major achievement on its own.”—Chicago Tribune • “A provocative\, enlightening literary work of art.”—The Boston Globe • “Everett’s most thrilling novel\, but also his most soulful.”—The New York Times \nWhen Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans\, separated from his wife and daughter forever\, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile\, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know\, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. \nBrimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon\, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim’s agency\, intelligence\, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature. \nIf you would like to join the Prague In-Person Book Club write to contact@pragueliterarycalendar.com and we can invite you to our whatsapp group.
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/james-by-percival-everett/
LOCATION:Ouky Douky Coffee\, Ouky Douky Coffee
CATEGORIES:Literature
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