The Cafe Irreal
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The Cafe Irreal is an Internet journal dedicated to the publication and propagation of irrealist literature. Online since 1998, it has published a number of notable authors whose work sometimes fits into this non-realist genre, such as Charles Simic
, Ignacio Padilla
, and Pavel Řezníček
. It has published a number of authors in translation, especially from Spanish and (as it is partially based in Prague) from Czech. In this connection, translations that have originally appeared in The Cafe Irreal have been included in the Norton anthology Sudden Fiction Latino and Litteraria Pragensia's The Return of Král Majáles: Prague's International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010.
In 2008 the coeditors of The Cafe Irreal were nominated for a World Fantasy Award
for their work on the journal, and in that same year the journal was named one of the 25 best places to get published online by Writer's Digest
magazine.
As of its tenth anniversary issue (February 2009), the publication had printed stories by over 230 authors from 27 different countries.
Charles Simic
Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...
, Ignacio Padilla
Ignacio Padilla
Ignacio Padilla is a noted Mexican novelist and short story writer whose works have been translated into several languages. Padilla helped found the "Crack Movement" along with fellow Mexican writers Eloy Urroz, Jorge Volpi, and Pedro Angel Palou as a means for Mexican authors to find their own...
, and Pavel Řezníček
Pavel Reznícek
Pavel Řezníček is a Czech writer. In addition to his writing career he also translates from French . He did not finish a secondary school and since 1965 had worked in many manual professions...
. It has published a number of authors in translation, especially from Spanish and (as it is partially based in Prague) from Czech. In this connection, translations that have originally appeared in The Cafe Irreal have been included in the Norton anthology Sudden Fiction Latino and Litteraria Pragensia's The Return of Král Majáles: Prague's International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010.
In 2008 the coeditors of The Cafe Irreal were nominated for a World Fantasy Award
World Fantasy Award
The World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...
for their work on the journal, and in that same year the journal was named one of the 25 best places to get published online by Writer's Digest
Writer's Digest
Writer's Digest is an American magazine devoted to both beginning and established writers, offering interviews, market listings, calls for manuscripts, and how-to articles....
magazine.
As of its tenth anniversary issue (February 2009), the publication had printed stories by over 230 authors from 27 different countries.
Sources
- Evans, G.S. and Alice Whittenburg, "After Kafka: Kafka Criticism and Scholarship as a Resource in an Attempt to Promulgate a New Literary Genre," Journal of the Kafka Society of America, 31/32(1+2):18-26.