Lit in Translation

Martin Reiner

Born 1964 · Czechia

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Magnesia Litera 2015 · Shortlist

    Básník. Román o Ivanu Blatném

    Title translated by AI:“The Poet: A Novel about Ivan Blatný”

    Martin Reiner · 50 when first published

    Novel · 594 pages · Historical, Politics

    AI-generated summary:The life of the Brno poet Ivan Blatný: early literary fame in Czechoslovakia, flight to England in March 1948, erasure from Czech literary history, and decades spent in English psychiatric hospitals.

  • No English yet

    Magnesia Litera 2010 · Shortlist

    Lucka, Maceška a já

    Title translated by AI:“Lucka, Maceška and Me”

    Martin Reiner · 45 when first published

    Novel · 173 pages

    AI-generated summary:A young man becomes a father figure to a little girl who is not his own, while searching for his sexual identity and for the past of a famous exiled poet.