Premia Bohemica Prize 2025












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            * Premia Bohemica Prize 2025
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            We cordially invite you to the award ceremony of the Premia Bohemica Prize 2025, which thi

            presented to the Japanese Bohemist Kenichi Abe.

            The program will include a lecture by the laureate entitled Translations and Paratexts in 

            Milan Kundera.

            The event is organized by the Moravian Library in Brno in cooperation with the Faculty of 

            Charles University, which will host the ceremony this year at its premises in Celetná 13.


            Kenichi Abe, Assoc. Prof., teaches Central European literature and comparative literature 
            of Tokyo. As a translator, he has introduced dozens of Czech works into Japanese, includin
            Bohumil Hrabal, Václav Havel, and Bianca Bellová. In 2015, he received the Best Translatio

            for his translation of Patrik Ouředník’s Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Centu

            The Premia Bohemica Prize is awarded by the Czech Association of Slavists to foreign Bohem

            outstanding contribution to the dissemination of the Czech language and literature worldwi
            the Premia Bohemica Prize.
            Further events connected with the laureate’s visit to the Czech Republic:


            • 21 October 2025 – lecture by Prof. Abe at the Moravian Library in Brno
            • A new publication containing Prof. Abe’s bibliography of translations and studies will b

              before 23 October 2025