Belgium
Guest of the book fair Svět knihy Praha 2024
Stefan Hertmans is a Flemish novelist, essayist and above all a poet. His work has won many literary prizes and has been widely translated. In addition to his active literary work, he lectures at various universities in Paris, Vienna, Berlin and London and represents Flemish literature at international book fairs and symposia. His most successful prose works include the novel War and Turpentine. His novel The Ascent will be published in Czech in 2024.
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Book World Prague 2024
17:00 - 17:50
Svět knihy, Das Buch, Albatros Media, Francouzský institut v Praze
Czech, English
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us”, but isn’t the writer rather the one using Nietzsche’s hammer, the one who patiently examines the past, the...
Friday, 24. 5. 2024
Book World Prague 2024
11:15 - 11:50
Albatros Media
Czech, English
After "War and Turpentine" and "The Convert", Stefan Hertmans presents to Czech readers the auto-fictional novel "The Rise". In it, a well-known Belgian writer...
Saturday, 25. 5. 2024
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