Jiří Hájíček

Jiří Hájíček (born 11 September 1967 in České Budějovice) is a contemporary South Bohemian Czech writer.

[1] He won the 2006 Magnesia Litera prize for prose with his novel Selský baroko.

[2] In the European Society of Authors' 2013 Finnegan's List, Jaroslav Rudiš selected Hájíček's 2012 novel Rybí krev (Fish Blood) to be more widely translated into European languages.

[3] Rybí krev also won the Magnesia Litera Book of the Year for 2013.

[4] In 2016, his novel Zloději zelených koní was adapted into a film by Dan Wlodarczyk.