Radka Denemarková

Introduction

Radka Denemarková, born 1968, is a Czech novelist, dramatist, screenplay writer, translator, essayist, teacher of creative writing. She is the only Czech author to have won the Magnesia Litera award a total of four times, in the categories prose (2007: Money from Hitler), non-fiction (2009: You Will not be Afraid of Death: The Story of Petr Lébl), translation (2011: Herta Müller: Atemschaukel) and book of the year (2019: Hours of Lead). In 2023 she published a novel "Chocolate Blood." Denemarková's works have been translated into more than 20 languages. She lives in Prague. Member of the German Academy for Language and Literature (Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung) from 2024.

Resident planning

A novel with the working title "Nanning Street." It is an extensive novel that traces the parallel history of families in Taiwan and Czech Republic, Prague. It is also an exploration of democracy (which began in Taiwan in 1989 and in the Czech Republic / East Europe in 1989) and human rights and their defense. The novel will be a panorama of historical and current events in Taiwan and the Czech Republic. I would like to finish the novel in Taiwan. It follows on from my large-scale successful novel "Hours of Lead," where I touch on the issues and dangers of modern-day totalitarianism in a wider and global context and warn of the dangers of modern-day totalitarianism. Cooperation with journalist Filip Noubel, editor-in-chief of "Gobal Voices," who lives in Taipei, speaks Czech and Mandarin (essay texts), and cooperation with the Museum for Human Rights. Documentary (feature film for cinemas) about the position of literature in today's world and Radka Denemarková's relationship to Taiwan.