Lit in Translation

Jiří Hájíček

Born 1967 · Czechia

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Magnesia Litera 2013 · Shortlist

    Rybí krev

    Title translated by AI:“Fish Blood”

    Jiří Hájíček · 45 when first published

    Novel · 354 pages · Family, Nature

    AI-generated summary:In 2008 Hana returns after fifteen years abroad to her half-flooded native village on the Vltava, emptied for the Temelín nuclear plant, to face her family and old friends.

  • In English

    Magnesia Litera 2006 · Winner

    Rustic Baroque

    Selský baroko

    Jiří Hájíček · 38 when first published

    Novella · 200 pages · Historical, Crime

    AI-generated summary:A genealogist who builds family trees for emigrants is hired to find the woman who in the 1950s wrote a letter denouncing farmers in a South Bohemian village.