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Dear friends of Meltingpot. We are very sorry, but this July we will not meet in person in the Dolní Vítkovice area. The 19th year of
the Colours of Ostrava festival, which we host every year, has had to be postponed to next year due to the coronavirus pandemic. See you on 14th - 17th July 2021.
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Czech

Radka Denemarková (CZE)

writer, screenwriter and translator

„We live in a falsified history of the 20th and a tenth of the 21st century. As long as the knot is not untangled, we will not be free.“

 

A Czech writer, literary historian, screenwriter, translator of German works and dramaturgist. Radka Denemarková is the only Czech author to win the Magnesia Litera, a prestigious award for literature, four times in three categories (prose, journalism, translation) and to receive the Book of the Year Award. This February, her latest novel “Hodiny z olova” was released.

  She graduated from the Czech studies and German studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, where she later earned her Ph.D. She worked as a researcher at the Institute of Czech More…