Prominent Romani poet and translator Vlado Olah has died at the age of 64 following a prolonged illness.

Tomas Transtromer has just been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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.

Anagram Bookshop, an institution for readers of English language literature in Prague for the past 12 years, is set to close at the end of September unless it receives a significant cash injection