Jan Balaban

Where Was the Angel Going? (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Glagoslav Publications B.V. (N)
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781912894291
• Artikelnr.: 62077731

Autorenporträt

Jan Balabán was born in ¿umperk, a town near the city of Olomouc in what was at the time Czechoslovakia, on 29 January 1961. He was raised in the city of Ostrava, which lies some 92 kilometres southwest of his birthplace. It is this city that forms the backdrop for most of his fiction. He entered the University of Olomouc in the 1980s, where he studied Czech and English. Upon graduation, he began work as a technical translator in Ostrava. Up until the Velvet Revolution and the fall of Communism in 1989, his works were clandestinely published; like his brother the painter Daniel Balabán and so many other artists of his generation, he was a dissident. Before his sudden and untimely death on 23 April 2010, he had published several books, mostly collections of short stories, in the now unfettered press of the free Czech Republic. These are: St¿edov¿k (Middle Age, 1995) Böí lano (The Rope of God, 1998), Prázdniny (Holidays, 1998), Möná, ¿e odcházíme (Maybe We're Leaving, 2004), and Jsme tady (Here We Are, 2006). He also published two novels, ¿erný beran (The Black Ram, 2000) and Kudy ¿el and¿l (Where Was the Angel Going?, 2003), a screenplay Srdce draka (The Heart of a Dragon, 2001) and a stageplay entitled Bezrü?! (No Hands?!, 2009) in collaboration with Ivan Motýl. Zeptej se táty (Ask Dad), the manuscript of a novel that he was working on at his death, was posthumously published in 2010.