Visit the fifth Kriminacht in Litomy\u0161l and get to know contemporary authors of Czech detective fiction – Veronika B\u00e1lkov\u00e1, Jana Ja\u0161ov\u00e1, Petr Sagitario and Michal S\u00fdkora.<\/p>\n
The evening reading series is designed as a journey through Litomy\u0161l. Meetings with authors will take place in four places in the centre of Litomy\u0161l. Visitors can choose to attend only one reading or all four. <\/p>\n
18:00 City Picture Gallery (Litomy\u0161l Castle, 2nd floor) \/ Petr Sagitarius
\n19:30 Bobo Caf\u00e9 \/ Jana Ja\u0161ov\u00e1
\n21:00 Litomy\u0161l Municipal Police Yard \/ Veronika B\u00e1lkov\u00e1
\n22:30 Town Hall Yard \/ Michal S\u00fdkora<\/p>\n
The last reading will include the launch of a new book by Michal S\u00fdkora called No Good News.<\/p>\n
Veronika B\u00e1lkov\u00e1 ( <\/strong>1976) Michal S\u00fdkora<\/strong> (born 1973) Jana Ja\u0161ov\u00e1 <\/strong>(born 1968) Petr Sagitarius <\/strong>(born 1966) <\/p>\n Kriminacht 2025 is moderated for you by:<\/p>\n Marta Bauerov\u00e1<\/strong>, Director of the Town Library in Svitavy (Veronika B\u00e1lkov\u00e1)<\/p>\n Iva Pekn\u00edkov\u00e1<\/strong>, Director of the Litomy\u0161l Town Library (Michal S\u00fdkora)<\/p>\n Michal S\u00fdkora<\/strong>, university teacher, literary theorist, dramaturg and writer (Jana Ja\u0161ov\u00e1)<\/p>\n Martina Zuza\u0148\u00e1kov\u00e1<\/strong>, director of the Litomy\u0161l Town Gallery, curator and cultural manager (Petr Sagitarius)<\/p>\n Admission to the event is free.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Visit the fifth Kriminacht in Litomy\u0161l and get to know contemporary authors of Czech detective fiction – Veronika B\u00e1lkov\u00e1, Jana Ja\u0161ov\u00e1, Petr Sagitario and Michal S\u00fdkora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[92],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/strong>He comes from \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice, where he lives. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University in Brno and works as a lawyer in the state administration. She focuses on environmental law, especially nature and landscape protection. In 2024, she published her debut novel, Transition Period<\/em>, which is inspired by real cases of sea eagle poisoning. It is a novel set in the South Bohemian countryside, combining a relationship storyline with detective elements. <\/p>\n
\nis a Czech writer and university teacher. He made his debut in 2012 with the novel The Case for the Exorcist<\/em>, which launched a successful detective series featuring Commissioner Vyrova and was followed by other books Blue Shadows<\/em>, It’s Not Over Yet<\/em>, Five Dead Dogs<\/em> and Worst Fears<\/em>. Sykora’s novels became the basis for the television miniseries Detectives of the Most Holy Trinity<\/em> (2015-2019), which attracted a large audience. In addition to the novels, Michal S\u00fdkora has written, together with Petr Jarchovsk\u00fd, the scripts for the miniseries Live Targets (<\/em> 2019) and Background Events (<\/em> 2022) for Czech Television. Michal S\u00fdkora is also the author of several literary publications, including monographs on Vladimir Nabokov (2002, 2004) and Philip Roth (2019). For the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc, he wrote the contemporary tragicomedy You Are Finally Home or Paper Mausoleum (<\/em> 2024). At Kriminacht he will present his latest novel No Good News (<\/em> 2025), which was written during a literary residency in Litomy\u0161l. <\/p>\n
\nGraduated in journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University. She is a successful literary translator and also devotes herself to her own literary work. She has translated more than two hundred fiction titles for children and adults from English. She won the favour of readers and critics with her first mystery book, Destroy the Name (<\/em> 2022). This was followed by the thrillers Cruel Moon<\/em> (2023), which won the Magnesia Litera Prize for crime fiction, and Predatory Beasts at Large (<\/em> 2024). The author is known for the absence of detectives in her mysteries. <\/p>\n
\nHe is a Czech detective writer with Polish roots. He was born in T\u0159inec, lives in Jablunkov and the Czech-Polish-Slovak tri-border is the setting of most of his books. He has worked as a teacher, cultural officer, worker, artist and journalist, and from 1998 to 2014 as mayor of Jablunkov. He is currently on disability pension. He is the author of the Trujkunt<\/em> detective series featuring the popular Ostrava crime scene investigator Major Roman Saran. “Trujkunt” is a special place, and the easternmost tip of our country, where the intermingling of neighbouring languages has created an original dialect called Najem. Detective Saran is as peculiar as the region he lives in. <\/p>\n