The Czech poet, playwright and translator Ludvík Kundera was awarded this year’s Jaroslav Seifert prize on Monday recognising his life’s work and contribution to literature.
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Ludvík Kundera awarded Seifert prize
The Transport Ministry has announced extensive plans to overhaul more than 160 kilometres of what is often considered to be the country’s worst highway: the highly-used D1 thoroughfare from Prague to Brno. For years the D1 has been plagued by aging surfaces, damaged sections, and complicated reconstruction – often a nightmare for drivers. But, transport officials hope, that could soon change.
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Ill-reputed D1 highway to see unprecedented reconstruction over 10 years
On the one hand, defining one’s territory is said to be a basic human trait, and on the other there is nothing that comes so natural to people – when given a say – as to defy a boundary and explore the other side. The Czech/German/Polish tri-border is an excellent example of this.
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The Four Corners of the Czech Republic, Pt. II: The Sudetenland
The first two names always given at the top of the pantheon of Czech classical music are Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana; the third is invariably Leoš Janáček.
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Leoš Janáček, the composer for a new republic
Unlike most of our guests in Czech Books, Tomáš Sedláček is an economist, and an influential one at that. He is chief economic strategist for one of the major Czech banks. But that does not mean that we are going to be talking about numbers
Laura Baranik is one of the Czech Republic’s best known restaurant reviewers, writing a regular column in the Saturday edition of the newspaper Lidové noviny, as well as running her own blog, The Prague Spoon. During her short career, the 25-year-old has developed a reputation for demanding high standards, and earned the enmity of some restaurateurs, who are perhaps unused to such exacting criticism.
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Prague restaurants improved but standards need to match prices, says food critic Laura Baranik
In Sports News: after a top-flight career lasting over two decades, the great Czech rower Václav Chalupa goes out in style; the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Petr Sýkora presents ice hockey’s Stanley Cup to fans in Plzeň; the Czech soccer squad gather ahead of a crucial World Cup qualifier against Slovakia; and three months after being photographed buying drugs, Roman Bednář is back – and scoring again – for West Brom.
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Sports News 8.31.2009
My guest in One on One today has been described as a ‘young Czech Matthew Barney’ and a ‘rising star’ on the London art scene. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art two years ago, Tereza Bušková has exhibited in some of the capital’s highest-profile spaces such as Gallery 176, and Gallery One One One.
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Artist Tereza Bušková on capturing Moravian rituals and conquering the London art scene
Welcome to this week’s SoundCzech, which this week sounds less Czech and more German. This time we are going to be looking at German words that are commonly used in Czech, and to introduce a popular example, I’ve chosen the song “Ksicht” by the well-known ska band Sto zvířat (“100 Animals”).
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For "Mutes", the Germans lent a lot of words
The Czech president, Václav Klaus, is set to launch his latest book at Prague Castle on Friday morning. In Modrá planeta v ohrožení, which translates as Blue Planet Under Threat, he again questions received wisdom on global warming, a subject that has exercised him greatly in recent years.
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Czech president targets environmentalists and politicians in latest book on climate change