Vaclav Smil is a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst whose work spans energy, environment, food, population, economics, history, and public policy. Educated at Charles University in Prague and…
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Sheila Heti is the author of ten books, including the novels Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? Her upcoming novel, Pure Colour, will be published on February 15, 2022.
Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel …
VIOLA DAVIS is an internationally acclaimed actress and producer, known for her exceptional performances in television shows like 'How to Get Away with Murder' and movies like 'Fences' and 'The Help.'…
The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics…
Magdaléna Platzová is a Czech writer, journalist, playwright and translator. She studied at Georgetown University, Brockwood Park School and Charles University in Prague where she obtained master's de…
Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin, where she graduated from Trinity College. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The White Review, The Stinging Fly, and the Winter Page…
Marek Torčík (Přerov, 1993) je český spisovatel a publicista. Žije v Praze, vystudoval Anglofonní literaturu a kulturu na Karlově univerzitě. Debutoval básnickou sbírkou Rhizomy (2016). V roce 2018 a …
Coco Mellors is a writer from London. She moved to New York as a teenager and received her MFA in Fiction from New York University. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Cleopatra and Franke…
Žije v Praze. Vystudoval anglistiku a bohemistiku na Univerzitě Karlově. Jeho románový debut Srpny (2023) o manipulaci a gaslightingu se ihned po vydání stal knižním bestsellerem, dočkal se divadelníh…
Miroslav Hlaučo (1967) vystudoval klinickou farmacii v Bratislavě, po ní také režii na DAMU a filmovou vědu na Filozofické fakultě v Praze. Po krátkém období, ve kterém se živil uměním, pracuje už řad…
