Jaroslav Seifert Prize
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The Jaroslav Seifert Prize is a prestigious Czech literary prize. It was originally awarded to authors in exile during the Soviet era.
Laureates
- 2010 – Jáchym TopolJáchym TopolJáchym Topol is a Czech writer.- Life :Jáchym Topol was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Topol, Czech playwright, poet, and translator of Shakespeare, and Jiřina Topolová, daughter of the famous Czech Catholic writer Karel Schulz.Topol's writing began with lyrics for the rock band Psí...
- 2009 – Ludvík KunderaLudvík KunderaLudvík Kundera was a Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian. He was a notable exponent of the Czech avant-garde literature and a prolific translator of German authors. In 2007, he received the Medal of Merit for service to the Republic...
- 2008 – Václav HavelVáclav HavelVáclav Havel is a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic . He has written over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally...
- 2007 – František ListopadFrantišek ListopadFrantišek Listopad is a Czech poet, prose writer, essayist, theatre and television director, promoter of Czech literature and culture abroad, regarded as an expert on Central European thought and cultural output.-Biography:František Listopad was born on 26 November 1921 in Prague...
- 2006 – Ivan Martin JirousIvan Martin JirousIvan Martin Jirous was a Czech poet, best known for being the artistic director of the Czech psychedelic rock group The Plastic People of the Universe and later one of the organizers of the Czech underground during the communist regime...
- 2005 – Michal AjvazMichal AjvazMichal Ajvaz is a Czech novelist, poet and translator, an exponent of the literary style known as magic realism.- Biography :...
- 2004 – Avigdor DaganAvigdor DaganAvigdor Dagan was an Israeli writer, a playwright and literary translator; a diplomat...
and Josef ŠkvoreckýJosef ŠkvoreckýJosef Škvorecký, CM is a leading contemporary Czech writer and publisher who has spent much of his life in Canada. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country... - 2003 – Miloslav TopinkaMiloslav TopinkaMiloslav Topinka is a Czech poet.He graduated from psychology at the Charles University. In 1968 he took part in the student Expedition Lambaréné as the expedition's psychologist. In 1969 he became an editor of a monthly revue called Sešity...
- 2002 – Jiří GrušaJirí GrušaJiří Gruša was a Czech poet, novelist, translator, diplomat and politician.-Biography:...
- 2001 – Zdeněk Rotrekl
- 2000 – Pavel ŠrutPavel ŠrutPavel Šrut is a Czech poet and writer.-Career:After graduating in 1967 from the Charles University in Prague where he studied English and Spanish, Šrut worked as an editor in a publishing house. Since 1972, he is a freelance writer and translator...
- 1999 – Jiří Kratochvil
- 1998 – Věra Linhartová
- 1997 – Karel Milota
- 1996 – Jiřina HaukováJirina HaukováJiřina Hauková was a Czech poet and translator. She was a member of the Group 42 , together with her husband Jindřich Chalupecký.- Biography :...
- 1996 – Zbyněk HejdaZbynek HejdaZbyněk Hejda is a Czech poet, essayist and translator , generally recognised as one of the most important Czech writers after the Second World War. He studied philosophy and history at the Charles University...
- 1995 – Petr Kabeš
- 1995 – Antonín Brousek
- 1994 – Milan KunderaMilan KunderaMilan Kundera , born 1 April 1929, is a writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke. Kundera has written in...
- 1993 – Bohumil HrabalBohumil HrabalBohumil Hrabal was a Czech writer, regarded as one of the best writers of the 20th century.- Life and work :...
- 1992 – Josef HiršalJosef HiršalJosef Hiršal was a Czech author, poet and novelist.Hiršal was widely regarded as one of the most important Czech authors of experimental poetry; after early surrealistic writings, he made his literary debut with a collection of poems...
- 1992 – Ivan WernischIvan WernischIvan Wernisch is a Czech poet, editor and a collage artist. He studied Ceramics Secondary school in Carlsbad and has since done many jobs, mostly manual. In 1961, after publishing his debut poetry book, he quickly established himself as one of the best and most loved writers of his generation...
- 1991 – Jiří KolářJirí KolárJiří Kolář was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work was divided between literary and visual art.- Life :Kolář came from a poor family of a baker and a seamstress...
- 1990 – Emil Juliš
- 1989 – Karel Šiktanc
- 1988 – Ivan DivišIvan DivišIvan Diviš was a significant Czech poet and essayist of the 2nd half of the 20th century.- Biography :...
- 1987 – Ludvík VaculíkLudvík VaculíkLudvík Vaculík is a Czech writer and journalist. A prominent samizdat writer, he is most famous as the author of the "Two Thousand Words" manifesto of June 1968.-Pre-1968:...
- 1986 – Dominik Tatarka