Ivan Klíma Q and A

       I missed this when it came out a couple of weeks back, but in The Prague Post Stephan Delbos has an Interview: Ivan Klíma.
       Fairly informative -- though it's disappointing to hear:

TPP: Do you read the work of younger Czech writers?

IK: I'm not so interested in younger writers. My colleagues are in their fifties, and I mostly read their work in manuscripts. When I read something written by younger writers, I don't find it's on the highest level. Often it's very well written but more or less about nothing. It lacks a great subject.

       (The only Klíma-title under review at the complete review is the completely unrepresentative Between Security and Insecurity, though I am a fan of his fiction -- and would love to see Moje šílené století ('My Crazy Century') get translated, the book about which he notes: " I've signed contracts for Spanish translations and Chinese translations, but the most important is English, which hasn't happened yet"; see also the Nakladatelství Academia publicity page for the first volume (there's now also a second).)