About this Event
Czech Center New York presents another evening with Czech writer Markéta Pilátová. This time, she will introduce her new book for children about Arnošt Lustig, Czech writer and holocaust survivor.
Her new graphic novel for children presents the most important moments in Arnošt Lustig's life that can be essential not only for him, but also for his children, Eva and Josef. The books is composed as a dialogue about their lives.
The book was nominated for this year's Magnesia Litera Book Award.
ARNOŠT LUSTIG (1926–2011)
Novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and educator. He is one of the most important and influential authors of the 20th century. His legacy and personal story are extraordinary in the European and world context. His work, translated into 30 languages, entails over thirty novels, novellas and short story collections, and several books of non-fiction, essays, and philosophical reflections. His writing has earned him Nobel and Pulitzer Prize nominations, as well as the International Man Booker Prize for his long-term contribution to world literature. He left a legacy of several feature film scripts.
He was sentenced to death three times by the Nazis, once to an unconditional Pr*son sentence by the Czechoslovak Communists, and was a banned author in his native country for more than twenty years. As a survivor of the Shoah - or perhaps because of it - he loved people and believed in life, in justice, camaraderie, courage and dignity. He dedicated a substantial part of his work to the Shoah.
Photo credit © Alan Pajer
Writer, translator and journalist Markéta Pilátová (1973) studied Romance Studies and History at the Faculty of Arts of the Palacký University in Olomouc, where she worked as an assistant professor for six years. For two years, she worked as a Czech language lecturer at the Department of Slavic Studies in Granada, Spain, after which she went to Argentina and Brazil for a long time, where she taught the descendants of Czech expatriates. As a journalist, she mainly writes for the weekly magazine Respekt, in which she was also employed for some time. He currently resides permanently in the Czech Republic. She is the author of a number of novels, short stories, poems and children's books. Among the most famous ones, let's mention Yellow Eyes Lead Home (2007), Tsunami Blues (2014) or With Bata in the Jungle (2017). So far, the author's latest work is the novel Senzibil, which was published in 2020 by the Torst publishing house. Markéta Pilátová is one of the most translated contemporary Czech writers.
Photo credit © Jiří Sobota
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, New York, United States
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