Born 1977 · Czechia
Magnesia Litera 2020 · Shortlist
David Zábranský · 42 when first published
Novel · 402 pages · Satire, Speculative, Politics
AI-generated summary:After a shocking discovery in a Shanghai shopping centre, Danish brand expert Robert Holm decides to change the world and, through social media, sets off a new migration of peoples.
Magnesia Litera 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Martin Juhás, or Czechoslovakia”
David Zábranský · 38 when first published
Novel · 575 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:Martin Juhás, the son of a young Slovak labourer and a spoilt woman from southern Bohemia, is cursed from conception to be not a resister but a rebel, in a Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1948.