2024-05-15 22:55:48
Author and poet Marek Torčík turned the laureate of the thirty seventh Jiří Orten Prize, awarded to gifted authors beneath the age of 30. He succeeded along with his debut novel entitled Rozložíš paměstí, printed by the Paseka publishing home, and this 12 months he already received the Magnesia Litera within the prose class.
The award-winning ebook got here from 29 titles entered. Representatives of the organizing Affiliation of Czech Booksellers and Publishers introduced the winner this Wednesday night within the Mirror Chapel of the Nationwide Library in Prague’s Klementin, the recording could be seen on YouTube.
The writer captivated the jury with a convincing literary narrative of a younger man whose otherness runs into the prejudices and stereotypes of not solely these closest to him, but additionally the misunderstanding of the small-town world through which he grows up.
The ebook was nominated, amongst different issues, for “remembering recollections of childhood, bullying, the ache of rejection, humiliation and wounds, of affection, concern and acceptance of 1’s personal shadows – which efficiently evoke not solely particular person human future, but additionally hitherto relatively ignored issues of the current society”, stated the jury. This 12 months, literary historian and critic Alena Šidáková Fialová was in cost. “We have been actually in search of literary high quality, not for the subject and social impression, though that can be high-quality. And we aren’t within the media response in any respect, that was solely a secondary matter,” defined Šidáková Fialová at Wednesday’s ceremony, what she and her colleagues adopted .
Torčík is a poet, author and columnist. He comes from Přerov, lives in Prague, the place he studied Anglophone literature and tradition on the College of Arts of Charles College. In 2016, he printed the poetry assortment Rhizoma.
“Once I was writing Rozlóžís memória, I continually got here throughout the impossibility of wanting into different folks’s heads, a minimum of for a second. For me, that ebook turned an try and do one thing like that. Once I was writing, I used to be within the gaps between ‘I’ and different folks, gaps embodied by traumas, class even social variations, or simply distorted recollections. I needed the ebook to don’t have any adverse characters, solely actual individuals who make errors identical to me,” Torčík stated.
Marek Torčík with the Jiří Orten Award. | Picture: CTK
As well as, the poetry collections Flavedo by Vasilios Chaleplis and Dům U Orobinců by Ondřej Krystyník have been nominated. All three nominees will current themselves on Might 25 on the World of Books pageant in Prague.
The opposite 4 books impressed the jury a lot that, though it didn’t embody them among the many finalists, it recommends them to the general public for studying. It’s a publication by Hana Ditrichová entitled Peacefully, On the best way again I activate hidden subtitles by Elena Pecenová, a set by Maria Jehličková I burn in stone and a ebook by the writer Marto Kelbl entitled Neither lady nor boy.
The Jiří Orten Award has been awarded since 1987, its laureates embody Michal Viewegh, Tereza Boučková, Jaroslav Rudiš, Petra Hůlová and even Sára Vybíralová. The award is related to a monetary bonus of fifty,000 crowns for the winner, and identical to final 12 months, two different nominees will even be rewarded with 10,000 crowns. Final 12 months, Filip Klega received the underground poetry assortment Andrstán.