Jáchym Topol

Jáchym Topol (* August 4, 1962 in Prague) is a Czech writer.

Life

Topol is the son of the playwright and Shakespeare translator Josef Topol. He broke 1982, the middle school and worked until 1986 as a warehouse worker, heater and carbon support. He then moved to 1990 disability pension.

Since the late 1970s, Topol was a member of the literary and musical underground movement in Prague. He wrote lyrics for the rock band Psí vojáci and participated since 1980 in samizdat editions. In 1985, he founded the underground magazine Revolver Revue. Since 1989 he has worked as a journalist for various magazines, including the weekly magazine he founded political respect. Since 2009 he has been editor of the daily Lidové noviny. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Prague.

Work

Was released in 1988 his first book of poems Miluji tě k zbláznění ( I love you to madness ). After further volumes of poetry, including V Úterý bude válka ( On Tuesday there will be war ), he focuses on his narrative work: 1994 his first novel Sestra appears ( Eng.: The Sister, 1998). This is followed by Andel (1995 - dt: Angel EXIT 1997), Noční práce (2001 - dt: Night Work, 2003) and Kloktat dehet (2005 - dt: Circus Zone, 2007). The story collection Supermarket sovětských hrdinů (2007) gathered six texts, written by the author since 1993; among them are dramatic works, prose and a screenplay. His last work is the novel was published in 2009 Chladnou Zemi ( by a cold country ).

Translations into German

  • K Vodojemu 24 - Between Church and yesterday - poems, bilingual. Publisher C. Weihermüller, Leverkusen 1996.
  • Tady to Znam - The label here ' I - Poems, bilingual. Edition Galrev 45, Galrev -Verlag, Berlin 1996.
  • Angel EXIT - novel. Folk and World, Berlin 1997.
  • The sister - novel. Folk and World, Berlin 1998.
  • Night work - novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M., 2003.
  • Circus Zone - novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 2007
  • The Devil's Workshop - Roman, from the Czech by Eva Profousová; Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-518-42144-4
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