The Portuguese writer Afonso Cruz has introduced his book Flowers at Book World Prague - it has more to say about people than plants.

"When you write novels, discipline is a must. A poet can afford to write one day and not the next, but when you write novels you must stick to discipline, otherwise the thing falls apart. Flaubert said that being a writer is a lifestyle. This means I work seven days a week, twelve months a year. I don't use...

The winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, Herta Müller, came to Book World Prague to talk to the filled Large Theatre about her work and her new book The Fox Was Ever the Hunter.

As the 50th anniversary of the European Commission approaches, a big celebration is about to be held. European clerks decide that the best venue for the jubilee is the former extermination camp in Auschwitz. Inspector Brunfaut, on the other hand, has other things to worry about: investigation of the murder at the Brussels Atlas Hotel has been...

The writer's work is to build bridges rather than walls. This idea, with which hardly anyone would disagree, was the leitmotif of a meeting between three authors - the Guatemalan-born David Unger, currently living in the US, Columbia's Luis Fayad and Álvaro Enrigue, author from Mexico.

One of the major literary stars to have visited the book fair is the American author of sci-fi and fantasy novels Tad Williams.

The Book World book fair is the traditional host of the Jiří Theiner Awards ceremony. This year's winner is the Polish translator Jan Stachowski.

With only a few days to go before the start of the Book World Prague book fair, the organisers could finally announce the participation of one of the most outstanding figures from the world of comics and surrealist cinematography, Alejandro Jodorowsky. His visit had already been planned for last year, when the book fair's focus was on comic books,...

The 25th annual international book fair and literary festival Book World Prague commenced with exotic rhythms from the TamTam Batucada drum orchestra. The instruments' rumbling sounds were an unmistakeable reminder that this year's guests of honour have come to the Holešovice Exhibition Grounds from Latin American countries.

What destinies await authors, or should we say their works, when they - for whatever reason - leave their country of origin, their linguistic context, their national readership? Is continuity disrupted? Do they become forgotten and uprooted? This weighty issue was discussed by the Chilean author Jorge Zúňiga Pavlov and his colleague from Cuba,...