Part II of The Prague Post’s interview with award-winning Czech author Jáchym Topol.

Read about Jachym Topol’s latest novel Chladnou Zemí, Cold Land, for which he won the Jaroslav Seifert Prize, in the Oct. 13 issue of The Prague Post. Topol sat down with The Prague Post recently at a cafe in Smíchov to discuss the Seifert Prize, his approach to history, and his place in Czech literature.

If you have read any contemporary Czech novels in English, you have probably read the words of American translator Alex Zucker. Zucker has translated more than a dozen books of contemporary Czech literature, most recently Case Closed by Patrik Ourednik. Zucker sat down with The Prague Post recently on his first return to Prague in several years.

No English translation of Chladnou Zemi has been published, but that may soon change. Translator Alex Zucker told The Prague Post that Chladnou Zemi is the book he would most like to translate, although a UK publisher has already purchased the rights to the book, and will have the final say in who translates it, and when.