Michal Viewegh
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Michal Viewegh (born March 31, 1962, Prague) is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers and the bestselling one. He writes about romantic relationships of his contemporaries with humour, and variously successful irony and attempts at deeper meaningfulness; he is sometimes compared to Nick Hornby by his fans.
His books, which since late 1990es he publishes regularly every spring, sell over 50 000 copies, bringing him an upper-high-class income uparallelled among Czech writers (by his own boastful admissions, his royalties from a successful book are roughly 8 years' average Czech salary and his 2004 income was 4 million CZK). Viewegh likes to point out this success with readers, as well as the fact that his books have been translated to several languages and made into films, since he fell out of favour with critics in mid-1990es, which sentiment he heartily reciprocated in his following books.
[edit] Bibliography
- Názory na vraždu (1990)
- Báječná léta pod psa (Wonderful Years That Sucked, 1992) - humorous bestseller about the Communist era; made into a film in 1997 (co-scripted by Jan Novak)
- Nápady laskavého čtenáře (1993) - collection of literary parodies
- Výchova dívek v Čechách (1994) - translated into English by A. G. Brain (pseudonym of Gerald Turner) as Bringing up Girls in Bohemia, 1996, ISBN 1-887378-05-7; made into a film in 1997
- Účastníci zájezdu (Holiday Makers, 1996) - made into a film in 2006, successful at Tribeca Film Festival
- Zapisovatelé otcovský lásky (1998)
- Povídky o manželství a sexu (Short Stories about Marriage and Sex, 1999)
- Nové nápady laskavého čtenáře (2000) - second collection of literary parodies
- Román pro ženy (Women's Novel, 2001) - made into a successful film in 2005
- Báječná léta s Klausem (Wonderful Years with Klaus, 2002) - loose sequel to the first Wonderful Years criticising Václav Klaus before the Czech legislative election, 2002
- Případ nevěrné Kláry (2003) - film in pre-production
- Vybíjená (2004)
- Tři v háji (2004) – together with Halina Pawlowská and Iva Hercíková
- Lekce tvůrčího psaní (Lesson of Creative Writing, 2005)
- Báječný rok (Wonderful Year, 2006) - a diary of 2005
collections of newspaper columns:
[edit] External links
- A discussion of Viewegh on Usenet
- Michal Viewegh at the Internet Movie Database - links to films from his books
Works online in English:
- Hooter(short story), with a photo and brief biography
- The Blissful Years of Lousy Living - translated excerpt from Báječná léta pod psa
- Another Mournful Joke - parody of Milan Kundera
