Lit in Translation

Štěpán Kučera

Born 1985 · Czechia

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Magnesia Litera 2022 · Shortlist

    Největší lekce dona Quijota

    Title translated by AI:“Don Quixote's Greatest Lesson”

    Štěpán Kučera · 36 when first published

    Novel · 220 pages · Historical

    AI-generated summary:The young soldier Miguel Cervantes, held captive by pirates in Algiers, and Sidi Hamet, a dervish driven mad by Arab travel writing who roams real and imagined lands with a lame camel and a foundling child.

  • No English yet

    Magnesia Litera 2020 · Shortlist

    Projekt Gilgameš

    Title translated by AI:“The Gilgamesh Project”

    Štěpán Kučera · 34 when first published

    Novel · 159 pages · Speculative, Historical

    AI-generated summary:Urshanabi, the ferryman from the ancient epic, is granted immortality in place of King Gilgamesh and sails the world's seas across the centuries into our own time and the near future.