Miloš Urban (born in 1967 in Sokolov, Czech Republic[1]) is a Czech novelist and horror writer.
He is known for Sedmikostelí[2] (The Seven Churches), a dark thriller about Kvetoslav Svach and how he is linked to murders in seven cathedrals in Prague that came out in 1999. It has been acclaimed as a masterpiece of modern gothic, Urban was praised as “the black knight of Czech literature”, the book has been translated into German, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish and Bulgarian among others.[1]
Hastrman came out in 2001. The novel received the prestigious Magnesia Litera Award,[1] and has been translated to Hungarian and a film is going to be made of the novel by the Czech TV. It is a controversial, non-compromising story combining motives from Czech myths and folktales and the problematic issue of ecology.[1]