The Franz Kafka Prize, which got a lot of attention a few years back when the winner went on to win the Nobel in the same year in two successive years, has announced that the Ceny Franze Kafky 2012 goes to Daniela Hodrová; see also the report at literalab, as well as the Daniela Hodrová pages at the useful Czech Literature Portal.
Hodrová had a couple of works translated into a variety of European languages about twenty years ago, but for the past decade she seems to pretty much only be getting translated into Bulgarian (really). Jantar Publishing did recently bring out her Prague, I see a city... (described as: "Originally commissioned for a French series of alternative guidebooks", and only clocking in at 106 pages) -- get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk -- but she's clearly not nearly as well-known as the previous winners of this prize (who include Philip Roth, Murakami Haruki, Peter Handke, and, last year, John Banville).
Hodrová had a couple of works translated into a variety of European languages about twenty years ago, but for the past decade she seems to pretty much only be getting translated into Bulgarian (really). Jantar Publishing did recently bring out her Prague, I see a city... (described as: "Originally commissioned for a French series of alternative guidebooks", and only clocking in at 106 pages) -- get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk -- but she's clearly not nearly as well-known as the previous winners of this prize (who include Philip Roth, Murakami Haruki, Peter Handke, and, last year, John Banville).