František Ondráš

The foremost scholar in Arab Studies at Charles University, Professor František Ondráš has enriched literature through his translations of the Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim into Czech and the Nobel laureate Jaroslav Seifert and Milan Kundera into Arabic, as well as publishing the first Czech textbook of modern Arabic. 

Professor Ondráš will moderate the reading and conversation entitled “A Time Between Ashes and Roses”.

Absolutely irreplaceable, František Ondráš resides in Prague.