Projects
Spiros Vergos Prize
14.03.2012
Spiros Vergos—poet, diplomat, journalist—was a great friend of the Festival, and the director of PWF 2005. Forced to flee Greece by the dictatorship in 1967, he went through exile—and resistance. He died in Prague in May 2007. Through his life and example, the festival sees a proof of the deep connection between writing and politic. If the politic can send away writers, how can writers be away of the politic? Freedom of expression isn’t just the possibility for an authors to speak...
William S. Burroughs
25.02.2008
"My trouble began when they decide I am executive timber", William S. Burroughs was born in 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri, into the family that cloned the adding machine, though he soon escaped the birthplace of T. S. Eliot and Tennessee Williams working as a private detective, exterminator,...
Joseph Roth
05.02.2008
Joseph Roth was born Moses Joseph Roth to Jewish parents on September 2, 1894, in Brody in Galicia, in the extreme east of the then Habsburg Empire; he died on May 27, 1939, in Paris. He never saw his father - who disappeared before he was born and later died insane - but grew up with his mother...
1968: Laughter and Forgetting
19.11.2007
The 18th Prague Writers‘ Festival, 1 - 5 June 2008, presents the events of 1968 through its theme “Laughter and Forgetting”
-4fbc8ec65c6f4_150x94.jpg "Spiros Vergos Prize 2012, by Petr Machan, PWF2012")
-petr-machan,-pwf-2011-(8)-4dd2908a3b7a1_150x94.jpg "Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda, poet Saadi Yousef and PWF president Michael March")
Spiros Vergos Prize for Freedom of Expression 2010 given to Adonis
09.06.2009
Spiros Vergos Prize—Freedom of Expression 2009 for Syrian poet Adonis
-4df07d0608e43_143x95.jpg "Peter Matthiessen, PWF 2010, photo by Štěpán Pech")
Spiros Vergos Prize for Freedom of Expression 2008 given to Natalia Gorbanevskaya
09.06.2008
2008 laureate - Russian poet Natalia Gorbanevskaya
