Knihlava Literary Festival 2026

Name: Knihlava Literary Festival 2026
Start: 2026-09-25
End: 2026-09-26
Location: Městská knihovna Jihlava

took place · 25 Sep 2026

Jihlava City Library, Jihlava

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For two days, Jihlava becomes one of the most interesting places for contemporary literature.

About the venue: Jihlava City Library

A public library with a universal collection, housed since 2003 in a reconstructed building of the former Jesuit gymnasium dating from 1727. It lends books, audiobooks and board games, and runs a music department, audio library and internet study room. Beyond the main building there are three branches - in Bedřichov, Březinova and Horní Kosov. In 2017 it won the Czech City Library of the Year award in the category of cities over 40,000 inhabitants.

Hluboká 109/1, 586 01 Jihlava 1 Get directions

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Petr Borkovec

13:00

Bohdan Heblík 11:00
Judita Horváthová 12:00
Alžběta Medková 14:00
Michal Špína 14:00
Apolena Vybíralová 15:00
Antonie Jurášová 15:45
Aleš Kauer 16:00
Alena Machoninová 16:00
Robin Slabý 16:45
Miloš Hroch 17:00
Aneta Jetmar Martínková 17:00
Jakub Polách 17:00
Ivan Tvrdík 17:00
Bea Heltzelová 17:45
Tereza Lunová 17:45
Sára Procházková 17:45
Anna Bolavá 18:00
Lucie Faulerová 18:00
Ljuba Jakymčuk 18:00
Carla Nyman 19:00
Valentýna Žišková 19:00
Stefan Segi 19:00
Josef Řídký 19:00
Jak Sen 20:00
Olinství 20:00

About: Petr Borkovec

One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Czech writing, Petr Borkovec publishes poetry and prose across Europe and is widely regarded as a leading Czech translator of Russian lyric poetry, with Khodasevich, Brodsky and Nabokov among his key authors.

30+

published books (poetry, prose, texts for children)

countries where his collections were published (Germany, Austria, England, Romania, Italy)

What's new

2026-03
Petr Borkovec received the Literary Criticism Award for 2025 for his prose collection Some Cécile and Others (Fra, 2025); the award was announced on March 25, 2026 at the Prague Center for Contemporary Art DOX.
2025
Borkovec's collection of short prose Some Cécile and Others (Fra) was published, which attracted critics with its movement at the boundary between poetry and prose and the expansion of the author's genre spectrum.
2024
In 2024, Borkovec published two new books: a collection of Poems and the entomological prose Fragile Book.

Tracks

Ochozpoetry collection awarded the Jiří Orten Prize (1994/1995)

Herbář k čemusi horšímupoetry collection (2018), one of the key works of the author's mature period

Lido di Danteshort story collection (2017), also published in Italian translation

Nějaká Cécile a jinéprose collection (Fra, 2025), awarded the Literary Criticism Prize for 2025

Básněpoetry collection (2024), one of the most recently published works

Here's how it looked last time

2025

Photo: Klára Škrabalová

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