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

The Prague Micro Festival is returning for its fourth year and will take place May 12 – 16, with readings, discussions and book launches taking place at K4 club (Celetná Street 20, Prague 1).

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

The first public monument honoring the German-language poet Rainer Maria Rilke, born in Prague Dec. 4, 1875, was unveiled at 16 Na Přikopě St. Dec. 7.

Litteraria Pragensia will launch Vincent Farnsworth’s Selected Poems, Theremin Oct. 24 at 7:30 at Gallery Velryba; Opatovická 156/24, Prague 1 (in the back room of Kavárna Velryba), coinciding with the opening of a new exhibition by artist Karl Bielik.

British poet Aidan Dun will be reading tonight, Friday, June 8 at 7:30 pm at Shakespeare and Sons Books in Malá Strana.

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.

To coincide with the Prague Microfest, which begins tonight, Prague publisher Litteraria Pragensia has released three new books written or edited by writers based in Prague.

Prague’s Microfestival of literature returns next week for its third installment – a week of readings and discussions in Czech and English from a number of Prague-based and international writers. Colophon talked to festival organizer Louis Armand about the purpose of the festival and its place on the Prague literary landscape.

The latest issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction offers an insightful introduction to contemporary Slovak fiction. The issue was edited and translated by scholar and translator of Slavic languages and Prague resident Clarice Cloutier, who teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in Central European literature and culture at Charles University and New York University in Prague, as well as serving as a guest researcher and lecturer at the Universiteit van Amsterdam in the Netherlands.