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Antonín Bajaja

Born 1942 · Czechia

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Magnesia Litera 2010 · Shortlist

    Burying the Season

    Na krásné modré Dřevnici

    Antonín Bajaja · 67 when first published

    Novel · 426 pages · Coming of age, Family, Politics

    AI-generated summary:Written as letters to his sister, a man remembers their childhood in Zlín just after the war, as the communists take power and the town becomes Gottwaldov.

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    Magnesia Litera 2004 · Winner

    Zvlčení

    Title translated by AI:“Gone Wild”

    Antonín Bajaja · 61 when first published

    Novel · 263 pages · Nature, Family

    AI-generated summary:A family of wolves driven out of Slovakia by hunters and shepherds settles in the Moravian Carpathians, where its life slowly comes closer to that of a human family.