A comedy reading is taking place this Friday, April 11 at Anglo-American University.

A roundup of literary stories from the web.

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

Prague-based American author discusses Senseless, his debut novel.

While former Czech President Václav Havel’s work as a politician and humanitarian are of paramount importance, his reputation as a writer must not be overlooked.

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

Elizabeth Strout, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her novel Olive Kitteridge, will be appearing at Prague’s American center Monday Oct. 3, to read from her work and give a talk entitled “Why Fiction Matters.”

The city of Prague has launched an interesting interactive project entitled “Prague, City of Literature.”

Prague Palimpsest is filled with ghostly juxtapositions of memory and place. For its author, Alfred Thomas, Prague is a surface upon which those who pass through have left their trace “without completely effacing the presence of their predecessors.” These may as often be politicians as writers, and the book’s compactly-written chapters do a good job of setting the literature of the city firmly in its historical and political context.

The Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann is best known for her poetry, but it is Die Radiofamilie, a collection of Bachmann’s writing, including scripts of radio plays that aired shortly after the conclusion of World War II on American sponsored radio stations in Austria and Germany, that is causing critical tongues to wag in recent days.