At Radio Praha David Vaughan talks to Edgar de Bruin: conquering the world with Czech literature.
De Bruin runs the literary agency Pluh -- and, as they explain at the site:
A few interesting titbits: Miloš Urban's The Seven Churches has sold over 60,000 copies in Spain and Latin America, for example (not quite so many in English, I suspect). And Patrik Ouředník's: "Europeana is the most translated book since the revolution" (even as the author remains "suspect" in the Czech Republic itself).
De Bruin runs the literary agency Pluh -- and, as they explain at the site:
The name Pluh is Czech for "Plough", and is pronounced like the Dutch word "Ploeg", which also means plough.Yes, they're based in the Netherlands, so ... but, yeah: worst explanation of anything, ever .....
A few interesting titbits: Miloš Urban's The Seven Churches has sold over 60,000 copies in Spain and Latin America, for example (not quite so many in English, I suspect). And Patrik Ouředník's: "Europeana is the most translated book since the revolution" (even as the author remains "suspect" in the Czech Republic itself).