Born 1958 · Czechia
Magnesia Litera 2014 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“A True Event”
Emil Hakl · 55 when first published
Novel · 190 pages · Crime, Politics
AI-generated summary:Back in Prague from Oslo, where he arrived just after a mass shooting, a man learns that bailiffs have seized a friend's house over a trivial debt and frightened his wife into a psychiatric hospital.
Magnesia Litera 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Rules of Ridiculous Behaviour”
Emil Hakl · 52 when first published
Short stories · 133 pages · Family, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:In three stories a middle-aged narrator tries paragliding with two younger friends, says goodbye to his dying father and travels to the Danube Delta to scatter his ashes.
Magnesia Litera 2003 · Winner
O rodičích a dětech
Emil Hakl · 44 when first published
Novel · 153 pages · Family, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A man of forty spends a whole day walking through Prague with his father, thirty years older, the two of them trading stories instead of arguments.