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State Prize in Literature awarded to Kateřina Tučková for the novel Bílá Voda

Her novels change rules, bring to light long-buried topics and events, and engage the public with them. For these reasons and others, Kateřina Tučková has been awarded the State Prize in Literature, one of the Czech Republic’s most important writers’ prizes, which is conferred annually on the occasion of Czechoslovak Independence Day (28 October).

Host Publishers - Foreign Rights Catalogue Autumn 2022

Petra Dvořáková, Jan Němec and Viktorie Hanišová are among the most successful writers represented by our agency. Their brand-new books are the leading titles of the Host Publishers Autumn catalogue.

La cercatrice di funghi / Houbařka by Viktorie Hanišová shortlisted for International Translation Prize of Capalbio

This prize is part of a new initiative within the international Capalbio “Piazza Magenta” awards. This novel, translated from the Czech into Italian by Letizia Kostner, was chosen from among sixty-plus applications.

Host Publishers - Foreign Rights Catalogue Spring 2022

Kateřina Tučková - Bílá Voda, current No. 1 bestseller in the Czech Republic, and another eleven new titles from Host.

Alena Mornštajnová wins Czech Book Award again

On Monday, 23 May it was announced that the 10th Czech Book Award had gone to Alena Mornštajnová for her latest novel November Fall / Listopád.

Jakuba Katalpa's novel shortlisted for The Annual Latvian Literature Award

The Annual Latvian Literature Award (Latvijas Literatúras Gada Balva, in short LaLiGaBa) is the most important literary award in Latvia.

November Fall and Sources of the Moldau shortlisted for Czech Book Award

The Czech Book Award will this year be conferred for the tenth time, and Alena Mornštajnová and Petra Klabouchová are in the running.

Two books shortlisted for the Magnesia Litera Award for Prose 2022

Good prospects for Irena Dousková’s book of short stories All’s Well, in the End / Konec dobrý and Simona Bohatá’s novel Lucky Beny / Klikař Beny

Host Publishers - Children's Books Foreign Rights Catalogue 2022

A school for drops of water? How to cope with the mother’s sudden illness? All the family stuck at home because of the germs outside? Little Charlie’s passion for strings, laces and knots? These and many more in the Host children’s books foreign rights catalogue 2022.