Born 1972 · Czechia
Magnesia Litera 2014 · Shortlist
Jaroslav Rudiš · 41 when first published
Novella · 148 pages
AI-generated summary:Vandam, a frustrated roof painter from a big Prague housing estate, settles his scores with the city, the recent past and his family's demons in street fights.
Magnesia Litera 2007 · Shortlist
Jaroslav Rudiš · 34 when first published
Novel · 173 pages
AI-generated summary:Fleischman, a thirty-year-old loner who understands clouds and weather, works as a handyman at the hotel on top of Ještěd mountain and cannot leave the town of Liberec below.
Magnesia Litera 2003 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Heaven Under Berlin”
Jaroslav Rudiš · 30 when first published
Novel · 141 pages · Love, Migration
AI-generated summary:A thirty-year-old teacher runs away from Prague to Berlin, where he wants to start a band called U-Bahn and find his girlfriend Katrin.