The International Visegrad Fund has approved the Literary Residents for 2017. The Visegrad Literary Residency Program consists of a series of residency stays and literary events addressed to writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, essayists, critics as well as literary translators, publicists and journalists from the Visegrad Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia).
This edition of the Program will enable 32 Literary Residents to carry their literary projects in 4 Host Institutions in one of the given periods: 1st May – 12th June 2017 (Compact Spring Edition) or 1st September – 30th November 2017 (Regular Autumn Edition).
List of Chosen Residents 2017:
Compact Spring Edition (1st May – 12th June 2017)
Czech Republic:
1) Irena Šťastná – Literarné informačné centrum in Bratislava (SK)
2) Ladislav Šerý – Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum in Budapest (HU)
3) Miloš Doležal – Villa Decius Association in Krakow (PL)
4) Milan Šťastný– Institut umeni in Prague (CZ)
Poland:
1) Ziemowit Szczerek – Literarné informačné centrum in Bratislava (SK)
2) Marta Dzido – Institut umeni in Prague (CZ)
3) Aleksandra Zielińska – Villa Decius Association in Krakow (PL)
4) Wojciech Engelking – Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum in Budapest (HU)
Slovakia:
1) Pavel Rankov – Institut umeni in Prague (CZ)
2) Jana Beňová – Literarné informačné centrum in Bratislava (SK)
3) Katarína Balcarová Kucbelová – Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum in Budapest (HU)
4) Michal Tallo – Villa Decius Association in Krakow (PL)
Hungary:
1) Gábor Schein – Villa Decius Association in Krakow (PL)
2) Tamás Jónás – Institut umeni in Prague (CZ)
3) Zsigmond Kassai – Literarné informačné centrum in Bratislava (SK)
4) Kinga Júlia Király – Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum in Budapest (HU)
Regular Autumn Edition (1st September – 30th November 2017)
Czech Republic:
1) Vojtěch Jurík – Literarné informačné centrum in Bratislava (SK)
2) Radek Fridrich – Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum in Budapest (HU)
3) Igor Malijevský – Villa Decius Association in Krakow (PL)
4) Alena Mornštajnová – Institut umeni in Prague (CZ)
Poland:
1) Maria Hawranek – Villa Decius Association in Krakow (PL)
2) Kamil Bałuk – Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum in Budapest (HU)
3) Łukasz Grzesiczak – Literarné informačné centrum in Bratislava (SK)
4) Zofia Bałdyga – Institut umeni in Prague (CZ)
Slovakia:
1) Silvester Lavrík – Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum in Budapest (HU)
2) Agda Bavi Pain – Villa Decius Association in Krakow (PL)
3) Mária Ridzoňová Ferenčuhová – Literarné informačné centrum in Bratislava (SK)
4) Pavol Száz – Institut umeni in Prague (CZ)
Hungary:
1) Márton Simon – Villa Decius Association in Krakow (PL)
2) Imre Kőrizs – Institut umeni in Prague (CZ)
3) Júlia Borbála Horváth – Literarné informačné centrum in Bratislava (SK)
4) Ádám Berta – Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum