Anna Bolavá

Anna Bolavá (b. 1981) is a writer and poet who grew up in the beguiling landscape of South Bohemia, whose countryside has had a lasting influence on her writing and its strong connection to the environment. Over the years, she has worked in research, as a factory worker, a cleaner and a proofreader. She has published four novels to date. Her prose debut Into Darkness (2015) won the Magnesia Litera Award for fiction and was hailed by critics as one of the most significant recent discoveries in Czech fiction. It has been translated into ten languages.

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Tereza Bartošová

Tereza Bartošová (b. 1985) is a Czech writer who also works as a doctor. She is the author of a series of detective novels set in her native region. The stories are inspired by the character of local villages, people, and nature. The individual books are connected not only by the pair of investigators but also by motifs from the dark ballads of the iconic 19th century Czech poet K. J. Erben. So far, she has published five widely-read novels, including The Waterman, a murder mystery drawing on the murky folklore of Central Europe.

Barbora Hrínová

Barbora Hrínová (b. 1984) is a Slovak fiction and script writer. A graduate of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, she currently teaches scriptwriting at her alma mater. She has written for Slovak TV and radio and been on study visits to the US and Georgia. Her first collection of short stories, Unicorns (2020), garnered Slovakia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Anasoft Litera. Her stories feature contemporary thirty- and forty-somethings and explore cultural and generational issues, highlighting various forms of otherness, such as loneliness, LGBTQI people and their relationships, present-day nomads, and existential uncertainty.

With her second book, the critically acclaimed autofictional novel The Shy House (2025), Hrínová has cemented her unique standing in the Slovak literary scene as a writer with a special gift for crafting sensitive portrayals of non-conformity and depicting ordinary human problems with empathy and subtle humor, avoiding the pitfalls of sentimentality.

Lucie Lomová

Lucie Lomová is a Czech comics artist and illustrator. Her series about two little mice, Annie and Joe, published regularly in Čtyřlístek magazine during the 1990s, was later collected in book form and adapted into a Czech television series in 2017. Lomová’s first book for adults, Anna Wants to Jump (2006), was first published in French by Éditions de l’An 2. Her other books include a graphic adaptation of five fairy tales by Karel Jaromír Erben, The Greatest Czech Fairy Tales (2008), and Savages (2011), the story of a young indigenous man brought to Prague by the ethnographer Alberto Vojtěch Frič in 1908. She is the recipient of numerous awards, and her work has been published in the UK, France, Poland, Germany, Hungary and Slovenia.

Emma Kausc

Emma Kausc is a writer based in Prague. She studied contemporary literature, culture and theory at King’s College London. Her debut novel Plot Disruption (2024) explores queer love, language and the transformation of identity over time, and won the 2024 Literary Critics Award for fiction.

Joshua Mensch

Joshua Mensch (b. 1978) is a poet, literary translator and a founding editor of the Prague-based literary journal B O D Y. His first book of poetry, Because: A Lyric Memoir (W. W. Norton, 2018) was a finalist for Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry. His translations include Petr Hruška’s I Caught Sight of My Face (Kulturalis, 2024), illustrated by Czech painter Jakub Špaňhel, and Pavla Melková’s The Gravitational Field of the Inexpressible (KANT Books, 2022), a collaboration with British sculptor and visual artist Antony Gormley. Raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, he has lived in the Czech Republic since 2003. 

Jan Němec

Jan Němec (b. 1981) is a Czech novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His novel A History of Light (2013) blends fiction and biography to portray the life of early-twentieth-century Czech photographer František Drtikol against the backdrop of Central European history. It won the EU Prize for Literature and has been translated into twelve languages. In 2019, he published his second novel, Ways of Writing about Love, which examines the beginning, middle and end of a five-year relationship through a self-reflexive narrative. In 2025, he and Czech writer Jana Šrámková co-authored the experimental work of fiction Apartment (2025). He is currently working on a large-scale novel drawing on Czechoslovak psychiatric LSD research conducted behind the Iron Curtain from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s.

Jakub Hussar

Jakub Hussar is a director, writer, producer and idea maker. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Cannes Bronze Lion, Magnesia Litera Award and Czech Game of the Year. Born in České Budějovice, he studied directing and screenwriting at a film academy. During high school, he co-founded the creative group Trinity Pictures and later played a key role in establishing the game studio ARK8 as well as a children’s channel for Czech Television. In 2018, he founded the innovative advertising agency HAZE, where he currently serves as creative director. In 2021 and 2024, he published successful sci-fi biographical novels 0 Tu and X-Tal, both set in the world of Coraab, a universe he has been developing continuously for over twenty-five years. 

Marcel Sauer

Marcel Sauer is a writer and diplomat. He lives in Rome and has previously resided in Tokyo, New York, Vienna, and Washington, D.C. He regularly contributes to newspapers and literary journals. His poetry has been included in the anthology Tra Roma e Praga / Mezi Římem a Prahou (2024). In 2024, he published the poetic and visual guide Rome: Beauty at Every Turn. His forthcoming book, Venice: A User’s Guide, is scheduled for publication in 2026.

Marie Iljašenko

Marie Iljašenko is a Czech poet, writer, translator, and a laureate of the Tom Stoppard Prize (2023). She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, into a family of Ukrainian-Czech-Polish descent. In 1992, her family moved to the Czech Republic. She has published three poetry collections, which have been nominated for several major Central European awards. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and has been translated into English, German, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Romanian and Japanese. She also writes short stories, essays and columns, and translates poetry from Polish and Ukrainian into Czech. As an editor, she compiled an anthology of Ukrainian-Czech-Slovak reports on the beginning of the war, Chleba z minového pole (Bread from the Minefield, 2022).