News archive
9.3.2010 :
Authors: This week discover Róbert Gál and John Wray
9.3.2010 :
Michal Ajvaz: Charles Bridge
23.2.2010 :
Petr Král (PWF 2008): Interview on the French Embassy website
23.2.2010 :
Petr Král (PWF 2008) will have a discussion at the French Insitut
20.2.2010 :
Café Central: James Baldwin A Delicacy of Heart
16.2.2010 :
Amy Evans McClure at Moe´s
8.2.2010 :
Assia Djebar: read her text "Women of Algiers in Their Apartment"
2.2.2010 :
Wole Soyinka (PWF 2006): "England is cesspit of Islamists" reports the Guardian
2.2.2010 :
E.L Doctorow (PWF 2007): "I don't have a style, but the books do" in the Guardian
21.1.2010 :
Must You Go?: My Life With Harold Pinter (PWF 1999) by Antonia Fraser in the Guardian
19.1.2010 :
Authors: Herta Müller Video at PWF 2004
15.1.2010 :
Nobel Lecture: Herta Müller Every word knows something of a vicious circle
11.1.2010 :
Nobel Lectures: Gao Xingjian The Case for Literature
9.1.2010 :
Albert Camus Week: Read his Nobel Prize Lecture
8.1.2010 :
Nobel Prize: We offer you an overview of Nobel Lecture
7.1.2010 :
Albert Camus Week: An excerpt of his play Caligula
6.1.2010 :
Albert Camus Week: Guillaume Basset presents it on Radio Praha (in French)
6.1.2010 :
Albert Camus Week: From a reader a Czech Testimony
5.1.2010 :
Colm Tóibín (PWF1994) wins Costa prize reports the Guardian
5.1.2010 :
Albert Camus Week: The First Man A Masterpiece in the Making
19.12.2009 :
Café Central: Aharon Shabtai Failure
15.12.2009 :
Café Central: Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science
7.12.2009 :
Café Central: Franz Kafka The Fourth Notebook
3.12.2009 :
Café Central: Boris Pasternak The Future
1.12.2009 :
Café Central: Guy Debord The Society of the Spectacle
30.11.2009 :
Nobel Prize: Romanian agent who spied on Herta Müller attacks her reports the Guardian
27.11.2009 :
Café Central: Fernando Pessoa The Book of Disquiet
26.11.2009 :
Café Central: Martin Heidegger Poetry, Language, Thought
24.11.2009 :
Café Central: Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth
23.11.2009 :
Gilbert Shelton (PWF 2009): Fat Freddy's Cat Omnibus reviewed in the Guardian
20.11.2009 :
Café Central: Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus
18.11.2009 :
Café Central: Robert Littell Nadezhda Mandelstam
16.11.2009 :
Nobel Prize: Review in the Guardian of Herta Müller's (PWF 1999) The Land of Green Plums
16.11.2009 :
Paul Auster (PWF 2008): Love Crimes in The New York Times
13.11.2009 :
Café Central: Yevgeny Zamyatin A Soviet Heretic
9.11.2009 :
Mahmoud Darwish: “A guest house at sea” in Café Central
2.11.2009 :
God Gets Graphic: A review of Crumb´s (PWF 2009) Genesis
1.10.2009 :
Gore Vidal (PWF 2001): ‘We’ll Have a Dictatorship Soon in the US’ in Common Dreams
30.9.2009 :
Aleksandar Hemon (PWF 2007) reads Stairway to Heaven on the Guardian's website
23.9.2009 :
English PEN Creates Literary Prize in Honor of Harold Pinter (PWF 1999) reports the New York Times
21.9.2009 :
Margaret Atwood (PWF2008) "The Year of the Flood" reviewed in the New York Times .
21.6.2009 :
Gilbert Shelton et Robert Crumb (PWF 2009), figures de proue de la BD underground américaine by Radio Praha (French)
20.6.2009 :
Adonis (PWF 2009) "La langue arabe, mon seul pays" in Radio Praha (French)
13.6.2009 :
Radio Praha on the visit of Wolf Biermann (German)
13.6.2009 :
Art of storytelling meets art of dissent reports Radio Praha
9.6.2009 :
Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb are speaking to Radio Praha
8.6.2009 :
Radio Praha about PWF 2009 (English)
8.6.2009 :
Radio Praha about PWF 2009 (German)
5.6.2009 :
Radio Praha about PWF 2009 (French)
5.6.2009 :
The Prague Post about PWF 2009
3.6.2009 :
Expats about PWF 2009
3.6.2009 :
Czech Business Weekly about PWF 2009
23.5.2009 :
Anne Michaels (PWF 2009) Swept Away in The New York Times
22.5.2009 :
Julian Barnes (PWF1997) Flights in The New York Review of Books
13.5.2009 :
Elmore Leonard (PWF 2002) Buddy, That Was No Lady, That Was My Pharaoh in The New York Times
11.5.2009 :
Anne Michaels (PWF2009) Movement of the people in The Guardian
8.5.2009 :
Niklas Rådström (PWF 1999) I don't believe in evil in The Guardian
4.5.2009 :
Anne Michaels (PWF 2009) fugitive author in The Guardian
28.4.2009 :
ColmTóibín (PWF 1994) You can take the man out of Ireland... in The Guardian
18.4.2009 :
William Burroughs (PWF 2003) Naked Lunch is still fresh in The Guardian
13.4.2009 :
Amos Oz (PWF 2003) Sees Israel With a Bird's-Eye View in The New York Times
12.4.2009 :
Andrei Codrescu's Posthuman Dada Guide (PWF 2007) in The Guardian
9.4.2009 :
Margaret Atwood (PWF 2008) a Does of Reality in The New York Times
9.4.2009 :
Margaret Atwood (PWF 2008) shortlisted for business book award in The Guardian
8.4.2009 :
Wole Soyinka (PWF 2006) on how he came to write Death and the King's Horseman in The Guardian
3.4.2009 :
Plastic People of the Universe (PWF 2005) “Hooligans and swindlers” in Radio Praha
31.3.2009 :
Robert Crumb (PWF 2009 set to publish 'scandalous' Bible satire reports The Guardian
30.3.2009 :
Josef Škvorecký (PWF 2000) Ordinary Lives in Times Online
30.3.2009 :
Richard Ford (PWF 1994) Chance is a fine thing in The Guardian
30.3.2009 :
James Meek (PWF 2007) We Are Now Beginning Our Descent in The Guardian
29.3.2009 :
Aharon Appelfeld (PWF 2000) Never Far From Despair in The New York Times
27.3.2009 :
Salman Rushdie (PWF 2001) will be at the Pen Center International Festival in New York reports The New York Times
21.3.2009 :
Margaret Atwood (PWF 2008) The Way of All Debt in The New York Review of Book
20.3.2009 :
Aharon Appelfeld (PWF 2000): 'Israel's sorrow-caravan' in Haaretz
16.3.2009 :
Jaroslav Rudiš (PWF 2009): Craving for Noise and Silence in Radio Praha
14.3.2009 :
Jean Genet (PWF 2002) The Thief's Journal in The Guardian
14.3.2009 :
Irvine Welsh (PWF 2003) Up from the street in The Guardian
11.3.2009 :
Arundhati Roy (PWF 2003) on Slumdog Millionaire in Pulse
8.3.2009 :
Julian Barnes (PWF 1997): Review of Nothing to Be Frightened Of in The Guardian
7.3.2009 :
Iain Banks (PWF 2009): Review of Matter in The Guardian
24.2.2009 :
Amos Oz (PWF2003) in The Guardian: Questions of sex and writing
21.2.2009 :
Julian Barnes (PWF 1997) in The New York Review of Books: Such, Such Was Eric Blair
21.2.2009 :
Margaret Atwood (PWF 2008) in The Guardian: Am I right not to go to Dubai?
19.2.2009 :
Margaret Atwood (PWF 2008) pulls out of Dubai festival in censorship protest in The Guardian
16.2.2009 :
Amos Oz (PWF2003): A life in writing in The Guardian
16.2.2009 :
The Guardian: Ian Mc Ewan (PWF200) gave Salman Rushdie (PWF2001) shelter
13.2.2009 :
Exploding the fatwa myths: about Salman Rushdie (PWF 2001) in The Guardian
9.2.2009 :
John Upidke by Adam Godpik in The New Yorker
3.2.2009 :
Susan Sontag (PWF 2000) The Precocious Years in The New York Times
2.2.2009 :
Richard Ford (PWF 1994) Remembering Updike in The New Yorker
2.2.2009 :
Jeffrey Eugenides (PWF 2003) Remembering Updike in The New Yorker
2.2.2009 :
E.L. Doctorow (PWF 2007) Remembering Updike in The New Yorker
2.2.2009 : John Updike: Tribute in The New Yorker
31.1.2009 :
Ian McEwan (PWF2000) mourns John Updike in The Guardian
28.1.2009 :
John Updike: Tribute in The New York Times
28.1.2009 :
John Updike: Tribute in The Guardian
20.1.2009 :
E.L. Doctorow (PWF 2007) on the presidency: Face to Faith
18.1.2009 :
Ahdaf Soueif (Vienna Writers' Festival 2005): 'This is a war of extermination'
16.1.2009 :
Playing with Fire: The Last Painting of Brion Gysin
12.1.2009 :
Tribute: Inger Christensen (PWF2009) in The New York Times
11.1.2009 :
Salman Rushdie (PWF 2001), How one book ignited a culture war
11.1.2009 :
The Limner by Julian Barnes (PWF 1997) in the New Yorker
11.1.2009 : The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder (PWF 2007) in the NY Times
11.1.2009 :
Susan Sontag (PWF 2000): The lust to write by Sarah Churchwell (PWF 2006)
5.1.2009 :
Inger Christensen (PWF2009) died this week-end.
15.12.2008 :
Chinese Citizens for Democracy in New York Review of Books
14.12.2008 :
The Monster in the Mirror: Arundhati Roy (PWF 2003)
13.12.2008 :
Murder in the Family: Tariq Ali (PWF 2008)
9.12.2008 :
Books from the pages of The New Yorker
8.12.2008 :
Nobel Prize: Jean-Marie Le Clézio's Lecture
7.12.2008 : Best books of 2008 in
the Guardian.
5.12.2008 :
Alex Ross: Winner of the Guardian first book award
4.12.2008 :
The 10 Best Books of 2008 in The New York Times
1.12.2008 :
Becoming Susan Sontag (PWF 2000) in the New York Review of Books
1.12.2008 :
William S. Burroughs (PWF2003) live at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
1.12.2008 :
Waiting by Amos Oz (PWF2003) in The New Yorker
29.11.2008 :
100 Notable Books of 2008 in The New York Times
29.11.2008 :
100th-Birthday Tributes Pour in for Lévi-Strauss in The New York Times
28.11.2008 :
The New York Times: Juan Marsé (PWF 2005) won the Cervantes Prize.
23.11.2008 :
The international takeover of French literature in The Guardian
22.11.2008 :
Interview of José Saramago (PWF1994) in The Guardian
21.11.2008 :
A. B. Yehoshua´s (PWF 2007) Friendly Fire in The New York Times
20.11.2008 :
National Book Awards in The New York Times
20.11.2008 :
Ian McEwan (PWF 2000) in the Guardian: The world's last chance.
18.11.2008 :
Extracts of The Hugo Young Papers in The Guardian
17.11.2008 : Spellbound: Paul Auster
(PWF 2008) in The New York Review of Books
12.11.2008 :
Death Takes a Holiday, and Few Are Better Off: review of José Saramago's (PWF 1994) latest novel.
5.11.2008 : The Guardian speaks about the petition for Kundera
3.11.2008 :
Margaret Atwood's (PWF2008) latest book reviewed in The Guardian
26.10.2008 :
New York Times: Death With Interruptions by José Saramago (PWF 1994)
22.10.2008 :
Günter Grass in the Guardian: Not coming to terms with the past
20.10.2008 :
Hae Ye Seen Me ?: Review of the new book of Irvine Welsh (PWF2003) in the NY Times.
16.10.2008 :
The New York Times: Aleksandar Hemon's (PWF 2007) novel The Lazarus Project nominated for National Book Award.
15.10.2008 :
The Guardian: Aravind Adiga wins the Man Booker
15.10.2008 :
The New York Times: Report Says Acclaimed Czech Writer Informed on a Supposed Spy.
15.10.2008 :
The Guardian: Uwe Tellkamp takes German Book Prize.
14.10.2008 :
The Guardian: Communist scourge Kundera accused of betraying western spy 58 years ago
13.10.2008 :
Mu Ch’i’s Persimmons by Gary Snyder (PWF 2007) in The New Yorker.
10.10.2008 :
The New York Times: French Writer Wins Nobel Prize
10.10.2008 :
Nobel prize for literature goes to author of poetic adventure, Alison Flood on Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio in The Guardian.
9.10.2008 :
PWF congratulates Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2008
6.10.2008 :
Dying of the Light, Garrison Keillor on Julian Barnes´ (PWF 1997) new book in the New York Times.
3.10.2008 :
France has vomited on us for too long: Michel Houellebecq (PWF 2005) in The Guardian.
2.10.2008 :
The Guardian: Nobel judge attacks 'ignorant' US literature.
30.9.2008 :
Peter Stephan Jungk´s (PWF 2007) Life of Walt Disney Chosen as Philip Glass NYC Opera Commission.
23.9.2008 :
The story of my lives: Robert McCrum talks to Philip Roth in The Observer
19.9.2008 :
Philip Roth´s new novel Indignation in the New York Review of Books.
19.9.2008 : A Dead Man Tells of His Too Short Life: Philip Roth in the New York Times.
18.9.2008 :
“Rebel Roar: The Sound of Michael McClure” (PWF 2008) in Berkeley Video & Film Festival 2008.
17.9.2008 :
The Independent: Jose Saramago (PWF 1994) has announced the completion of his latest work The Elephant's Journey.
15.9.2008 :
The Noble Truths of Suffering by Aleksandar Hemon (PWF 2007) in the New Yorker.
13.9.2008 :
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins reviewed by Robert Stone (PWF 2000) in The NY Times
12.9.2008 :
Listen to Tariq Ali (PWF 2008) at the Edinburgh Book Festival
10.9.2008 :
The Guardian: Salman Rushdie's (PWF 2001) The Enchantress of Florence is a striking omission from this year's Booker prize shortlist.
9.9.2008 :
One Magazine: The First Annual Merchant City Festival Writers' Conference
4.9.2008 :
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing talks about the future of literature in Newsweek.
29.8.2008 :
Aleksander Hemon (PWF 2007) reads from his latest novel, The Lazarus Project, in the Guardian.
28.8.2008 :
Listen to story by Paul Auster (PWF 2008) in the Paris Review.
27.8.2008 :
Siri Hustvedt (PWF 2008) reads from her new novel, The Sorrows of an American, in the Guardian.
26.8.2008 : Man in the Dark by Paul Auster (PWF 2008) in the New York Times.
25.8.2008 :
The novel Adam und Evelyn by Ingo Schulze (PWF 1999) in German Book Prize 2008 nomination.
25.8.2008 :
A Spring Awakening for Human Rights by Jiri Pehe (PWF 2008) in The New York Times.
20.8.2008 :
The Guardian writes about Lawrence Ferlinghetti's (PWF 1998) collection Coney Island of the Mind.
20.8.2008 :
Interview with the Nobel Prize - winner Gao Xingjian in the Guardian.
20.8.2008 :
ONE Magazine writes about Prague Writers´ Festival.
19.8.2008 :
Tariq Ali (PWF 2008) writes about Pakistani president in the Guardian.
18.8.2008 :
Exhibition in New York: Invasion 68 by Josef Koudelka.
17.8.2008 :
Mourid Barghouti recalls Mahmoud Darwish in the Guardian.
16.8.2008 :
Tariq Ali's (PWF 2008) "Radical chic revisited" in the Guardian.
15.8.2008 :
The Independent writes about Gore Vidal (PWF 2001).
15.8.2008 :
The New Yorker writes about Aleksandar Hemon’s (PWF 2007) fictional lives.
12.8.2008 :
The Guardian: The hugely popular Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish has died.
12.8.2008 :
The Guardian writes about Houellebecq's (PWF 2005) directorial debut.
11.8.2008 :
Michel Houellebecq (PWF 2005) presents his first feature in Film Festival Locarno.
5.8.2008 :
Short story by Julian Barnes (PWF 1997) in the Guardian.
5.8.2008 :
James Meek (PWF 2007) in the London Review of Books: When the Floods Came.
5.8.2008 :
NY Times writes about Doris Lessing´s book Alfred & Emily.
4.8.2008 :
The Guardian: Solzhenitsyn, Soviet dissident writer, dies at 89.
29.7.2008 :
An exile back on Main Street: Timothy O´Grady (PWF 2001) in the Guardian.
8.7.2008 :
Michael March: Half Pint
8.7.2008 :
E.L.Doctorow's (PWF 2007): "The White Whale" from The Nation
15.6.2008 :
NY Times: Interview with Gore Vidal (PWF 2001)
1.6.2008 :
Gary Younge (PWF 2008): Where is the great literature of the 70s? in the Guradian
29.5.2008 :
Michael McClure (PWF 2008) in the Guardian: We we still need the spirit of the Sixties
27.5.2008 :
Gore Vidal (PWF 2001) in the Guardian: Voice of the people
21.5.2008 :
Gore Vidal (PWF 2001) on politics in The Australian.
9.5.2008 :
Michel Houellebecq (PWF 2005): His mother takes her revenge in the Guardian.
4.5.2008 :
Fighting talk: Harold Pinter's (PWF 1999) The Birthday Party returns to London.
4.5.2008 :
Sea Change by Jorie Graham (PWF 2006) reviewed in the Guardian.
30.4.2008 :
Rapture-Ku´s: A new poem by Ed Sanders (PWF 2005) and Mikhail Horowitz.
28.4.2008 :
Paul Auster (PWF 2008) remembers 1968 as the year of years, the year of craziness, the year of fire, blood and death in The New York Times.
25.4.2008 :
Ersi Sotiropoulos (PWF 2002) Restore Freedom of Artistic Creation and Education.
24.4.2008 :
Michael McClure (PWF 2008) and Ray Manzarek, BIG MIX at Yoshi´s San Francisco May 7, 2008.
14.4.2008 :
What Have We Learned, If Anything? by Tony Judt in The New York Review of Books.
14.4.2008 :
One thousand and one delights: Arabic literature at the London Bookfair
4.4.2008 :
Hotel Josef, home of Prague Writers’ Festival, in the Prague Post
31.3.2008 :
Milan Kundera´s Prague in The New York Times
22.3.2008 :
The Guardian: Tariq Ali (PWF 2008) considers the legacy of the 1968 uprising, 40 years after the Vietnam war
19.3.2008 :
Tariq Ali (PWF 2008) on Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4
13.3.2008 :
Hotel Josef in the Guardian: Top 10 Prague hotels
11.3.2008 :
E.L.Doctorow (PWF 2007) in the Guardian: Conquer'd and slain
24.2.2008 :
The Guardian writes about Alain Robbe-Grillet (PWF 2002), who died February 18.
23.2.2008 :
David Rieff talks about the last days of his mother, Susan Sontag (PWF 2000).
14.2.2008 :
First recording of Allen Ginsberg´s "Howl" found after 50 years.
14.2.2008 :
Robert Creeley (PWF 1998) "What Life Says to Us" in the London Review of Books.
11.2.2008 :
"We Are Now Beginning Our Descent", a new book
by James Meek. (PWF 2007)
11.2.2008 :
"My Mistress´s Sparrow is Dead" by Jeffrey Eugenides (PWF 2003) in the Guardian.
11.2.2008 :
Maya Jaggi reports on the struggle for freedom of expression from the Cairo Book Fair.
11.2.2008 : The New York Times writes
about five Hollywood films of 1967.
8.2.2008 :
The Guardian reports on Doris Lessing formally accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in London.
8.2.2008 :
The Guardian writes about "the first pop journalist and the perfect chronicler of Sixties America" Tom Wolfe.
20.1.2008 :
The Observer publishes a series of articles
concerning the year of 1968: the memories of famous personalities; an article
about today's feelings of young Czechs towards 1968; Neal Ascherson revisits his
reports on the Prague Spring from 40 years ago.
3.1.2008 :
British-Pakistani novelist and historian Tariq Ali, who will participate in the 18th Prague Writers' Festival this June, writes about the Bhuttos in The London Review of Books.
2.1.2008 :
The Man Booker Prize 2008 announces Chair and Judges. The 2008 judging panel will be chaired by Michael Portillo, former MP and Cabinet Minister. Other memebrs of the jury are Alex Clark, literary journalist; Louise Doughty, novelist; James
Heneage, founder of Ottakar’s bookshops and Hardeep Singh Kohli, TV and
radio broadcaster.
12.12.2007 :
2007 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Doris Lessing's acceptance speech can be found here.
11.12.2007 :
A review of Bernard Malamud's biography can be found here.
11.12.2007 :
The New York Times and The Washington Post publish their 10 Best Books of 2007. The New Yorker joins the line, but its choice is wider.
11.12.2007 :
The British newspapers also join in. The Guardian and The Telegraph publish their lists.
26.11.2007 :
The New York Times Book Review publishes a list of 100 Notable Books of the Year 2007.
26.11.2007 :
Video report on the 58th National Book Award ceremony.
26.11.2007 :
A review of Denis Johnson's novel Tree of Smoke, which won the 2007 National Book Award.
19.11.2007 :
Margaret Atwood writes on Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World in the Guardian.
12.11.2007 :
The New York Times publishes a lengthy article on the history of the band The Plastic People of the Universe.
12.11.2007 :
The Washington Post's "Poet's Choice" chooses a poem by Margaret Atwood for this week. (free registration required)
5.11.2007 :
The Guardian publishes a review of Michael Chabon's new novel Gentlemen of the Road.
5.11.2007 :
John Updike's new book of criticism and essays Duw Considerations is reviewed in the New York Times Book Review. (free registration needed)
5.11.2007 : Richard Russo, the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for "Empire Falls", publishes a new novel, Bridge of Sighs. A review by the NY Times. (free registration needed)
5.11.2007 :
Two books of stories about New York City are published.
5.11.2007 :
The New York Times Book Review podcast for this week is available here.
5.11.2007 : Julian Barnes writes about his experience with the Swiss painter Félix Vallotton in the Guardian.
