Authors
Pavel Briycz Novelist Czech
“I am a narrator who is simply obsessed with narration, I love stories. That is also why I collect fairy-tales. Excitement always springs up in me when I discover a new tale, like in the khalif when he listens to Scheherazade. I am not a folklorist that purposely searches, analyzes and classifies them. I only let them take me places. And so I am truly looking forward to the journey to such a distant and exotic peninsula as Korea and hoping this journey will bring along a story I haven’t heard.”
Born in Roudnice nad Labem, Pavel is a novelist, poet, lyrics-writer, author of fairy-tales, scriptwriter, and high-school teacher. He obtained a university degree in Czech Language and Literature, and studied Dramatic Art at the Prague Drama Academy. He began his career writing lyrics for young rock bands and student plays, and the first opportunity to publish his work came after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. His first book, a collection of short stories under the title The Head of Upanishada, was published in 1993. A translation of one of the stories, “Dance on the town square”, was included in Daylight in the Nightclub Inferno: Post-Kundera Generation (1997), a prestigious anthology of Czech literature. The Patriarchy’s Long and Gone Glory, is a grotesque saga of a Ukrainian-German-Czech family, the Berezink, framed in the calamitous events of the 20th century, and was awarded the Czech State Prize for Literature in 2004. In the novel, the author turns back to his east-European roots and ponders on whether ‘real men’ are as endangered a species as the panda. After an extensive trip around Mexico, Pavel published excerpts from his travel diary “Viva la vida” in the literary magazine Host. Presently he is teaching Czech Language and Literature, writing fairy-tales for the Czech Broadcasting Company.
Participation Program
Round Table 3 Newness in my literature
Round Table 2 Newness in my literature
Round Table 1 Newness in my literature