Israel was the guest of honor at Prague’s international book fair. This series present Man Booker Prize winner David Grossman; literary giant Avraham B. Yehushua; successful author of detective novels Dror Mishani; and the award-winning Assaf Gavron.

see also on Radio Vltava: Hvězdy literatury, besedy, čtení. Vltava vysílá ze Světa knihy 2018 | David Grossman: Přijde kůň do baru | Když kůň vejde do baru, kde tančí Arabové, je z toho Izraelský týden

Some of the following images are used by Radio Vltava with the author's permission .

Some of the following images are used by Radio Vltava with the author's permission .

Reception held by the Israeli embassy at King's Court Hotel, 12. V. 2018

David Grossman talk to a reader at the reception held by the Israeli embassy on the occasion of the intl. book fair

Assaf Gavron, 10. V. 2018
writer, novelist, translator and musician, formerly a journalist and hi-tech worker. His books have been translated to several languages and won awards such as the Bernstein Prize for The Hilltop (2013), Prix Courrier International (France) for Croc Attack (2012), "Ein Buch für die Stadt" (Cologne, Germany) for the same novel (2012), and the Israeli Prime Minister Award for authors (2011).

Israeli ambassador Daniel Meron and Radio Vltava's Petr Gojda introduce Assaf Gavron.

A. B. Yehoshua, 11 and 12. V. 2018
Novelist, essayist, and playwright, published as A. B. Yehoshua. The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner."

Literary giant A. B. Yehoshua talks about the importance of morality in literature.

Dror Mishani, 11 and 13. V. 2018
Best selling author of untraditional detective novels, translator and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction. His series of crime fiction, featuring police inspector Avraham Avraham, was first published in Hebrew in 2011 and is translated to over 15 languages, including English, Swedish and German. His books were adapted to film in France, and for television in Israel.

David Grossman, 11. V. 2018
One of Israel's greatest writers, he was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2017, in conjunction with his frequent collaborator and translator, Jessica Cohen, for his novel A Horse Walks Into a Bar. In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature.

Ambassador Daniel Meron, 10, 11 and 13. V. 2018

Ambassador Meron at the Bubny Memorial, Prague.

Launching the English translation of J. R. Pick's novel The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 10. V. 2018
(From left: translator Alex Zucker; the author's sister Zuzana Justman; Radio Vltava's David Vaughan; Valerie Rosa Hetzendorfová.