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Jiří Hájíček

Czech writer · Czechia · On the map · Writers · Born 1967 · age 59

Jiří Hájíček is a contemporary South Bohemian Czech writer. He started writing poetry in the 1980s in a youth poetry programme hosted by Mirek Kovářík. He won the 2006 Magnesia Litera prize for prose with his novel Selský baroko.

Jiří Hájíček is read about 2 times a day, in 8 languages.

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A life in dates

2017The Czech BookAward2013"Magnesia Litera" award for the best book of the yearAward2006Litera for proseAward1967Born11 September 1967

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Awards

The Czech Book2017
"Magnesia Litera" award for the best book of the year2013
Litera for prose2006

About this person

In the European Society of Authors' 2013 Finnegan's List, Jaroslav Rudiš selected Hájíček's 2012 novel Rybí krev to be more widely translated into European languages. Rybí krev also won the Magnesia Litera Book of the Year for 2013. In 2016, his novel Zloději zelených koní was adapted into a film by Dan Wlodarczyk.

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Czechia
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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Living
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Born 1967 · age 59

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