Lauded Polish poet Adam Zagajewski has won the 2010 European Poetry Prize, which is awarded annually by the Cassamarca Foundation in Treviso, Italy.

The Prague Post discussion “Are Books Dead?” took place Nov. 17 before a crowd of nearly 100 people at the National Gallery. The event stretched into the night, with plenty of questions from the audience and animated debate taking place after the panel discussion had concluded.

There has been a great deal of discussion lately about the future of print media, especially books and newspapers. How can books and print newspapers compete with digital media and the Internet? This topic will be taken up at a discussion hosted by The Prague Post Thursday, November 18 at 7pm at the National Gallery in Holešovice. This is the third in a series of prefatory notes leading up to the discussion.

There has been a great deal of discussion lately about the future of print media, especially books and newspapers. How can books and print newspapers compete with digital media and the Internet? This topic will be taken up at a discussion hosted by The Prague Post Thursday, November 18 at 7pm at the National Gallery in Holešovice. This is the second in a series of prefatory notes leading up to the discussion.

There has been a great deal of discussion lately about the future of print media, especially books and newspapers. How can books and print newspapers compete with digital media and the Internet? This topic will be taken up at a discussion hosted by The Prague Post Thursday, November 18 at 7pm at the National Gallery in Holešovice. This is the first in a series of prefatory notes leading up to the discussion.

Full Metal Poem, the most interesting and well-executed English language literary journal to emerge in Europe in recent memory, saw its first issue released earlier this year. The journal is something of a combined, satellite effort, involving poet Cralan Kelder, based in Amsterdam, and poet Mark Terrill, based outside of Hamburg.

The Paris Review has released all of its author interviews free on its website. Stein’s radical decision to do so puts more than 50 years of interviews with leading novelists, poets and critics – an invaluable resource – at the disposal of online readers.

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.

Catherine Hales seems calmly aware of what is at stake in great poetry. Hazard or Fall is a book of poems which risk failure to explore the limits of language and its ability to describe and capture perceptions. The best poems in the book are all the more successful for what they risk, and finally achieve: fresh language which expresses the chaos of life in the 21st century, but does not sacrifice human warmth and the sure intelligence of tradition.