Jaroslav Seifert Prize

Jaroslav Seifert Prize
Awarded forPoetry or fiction published in the past three years in the Czech Republic or abroad
CountryCzech Republic
Currently held byJiří Brabec and Jiří Opelík

The Jaroslav Seifert Prize (Czech: Cena Jaroslava Seiferta) is a Czech literary prize created by the Charta 77 Foundation in Stockholm in January 1986.[1] This prize is named after the Nobel Prize–winning Czechoslovak writer, poet and journalist, Jaroslav Seifert, and is awarded for an excellent work of poetry or fiction published (or otherwise made public) in the past three years in the Czech Republic or abroad. It was originally awarded to authors in exile during the Soviet era.[2] The laureate is announced on September 22 each year, on the eve of Seifert's birth anniversary.[3] As of 2019, the prize is awarded every two years.[4]

  1. ^ ABC Prague
  2. ^ Writers Under Siege: Czech Literature Since 1945 by Jiri Holy, pg 201
  3. ^ "The Charta 77 Foundation Annual Report 2006" (PDF). Charta 77 Foundation. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  4. ^ CzechLit (2019-09-27). "The laureate of the 2019 Jaroslav Seifert Prize is Miroslav Petříček". CzechLit. Retrieved 2023-11-22.