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Who's Afraid of Czech Women Writers?
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Who's Afraid of Czech Women Writers?

[...] , země zaslíbená (Czechia, the Promised Land). [...]
Anna Maślanka
How to Build a Nation
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How to Build a Nation

[...] Václav Hanka—poet and librarian in the National Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia (the predecessor to modern Czechia [...]
Agnieszka Fiedorowicz
Female Lion Tamers
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Female Lion Tamers

[...] I can’t help it—when I think of photography in Czechia, the person that comes to mind is the fictional Tereza [...]
Agnieszka Rzonca
Cieszyn of the Two Nations
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Cieszyn of the Two Nations

[...] more than fifty thousand if you include neighboring town Český Těšín, which is just across the border with Czechia [...]
Beata Mońka, Marcin Mońka
The Knights-Erroneous
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The Knights-Erroneous

[...] came from, but from the middle of the second millennium BCE they lived in Central Europe, in what is today Czechia [...]
Marta Kmerzanka
The City of Alchemists
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The City of Alchemists

The maps from the time of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor situate Prague in the symbolic heart of [...]
Maciej Świetlik
The Man Behind Agnieszka Holland’s “Charlatan”
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The Man Behind Agnieszka Holland’s “Charlatan”

The Czech herbalist Jan Mikolášek – hero of Agnieszka Holland’s film “Charlatan” – lived [...]
Michał Zabłocki
The Power of Literature
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The Power of Literature

Radka Denemarková talks about feminism, exclusion, and the role of women in her novels “A [...]
Anita Musioł
The Dream Factory on the Vltava
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The Dream Factory on the Vltava

Barrandov Studios is the largest film studio in the Czech Republic. Today, it is used for [...]
Mateusz Demski
A Fragile Autumn and Restless Hummingbirds
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A Fragile Autumn and Restless Hummingbirds

In this excerpt from Czech writer Radka Denemarková’s novel “A Contribution to the History of [...]
Radka Denemarková
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