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Patrik Ourednik
Biography
Patrik Ourednik was born in Prague in 1957. His father was a doctor and his mother a teacher. In 1979 he signed a petition from VONS (The Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted) for the release of political prisoners, which meant he was not allowed to go to university. He worked at various jobs but was also a keen chess player and emigrated to France in 1984, working initially as a chess consultant and then as a librarian, studying French literature in the evening. He was editor and head of the literature section of the quarterly L’Autre Europeand then helped found the Free University of Nouallaguet. He published articles in French and Czech periodical publications and also translated Czech works into French and French works into Czech. He also wrote novels, essays and poetry. Four of his novels have been translated into English.
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1988 Šmírbuch jazyka českého. Slovník nekonvenční češtiny (lexicography)
1992 Anebo (poetry)
1993 O princi Čekankovi, jak putoval za princeznou, a o všelijakých dobrodružstvích, která se mu přitom přihodila (children’s)
1994 Aniž jest co nového pod sluncem. Slova, rčení a úsloví biblického původu (lexicography)
1995 Rok čtyřiadvacet (memoirs)
1995 Pojednání o případném pití vína (translation of Rabelais, with annotations)
1996 Neřkuli (poetry)
1997 Hledání ztraceného jazyka (essay)
2000 Klíč je ve výčepu (lexicography)
2001 Europeana (Europeana) (novel)
2004 Dům bosého (poetry)
2006 Příhodná chvíle, 1855 (The Opportune Moment, 1855) (novel)
2006 Ad Acta (Case Closed)
2010 Utopus to byl, kdo učinil mě ostrovem (essay)
2012 Dnes a pozítří. Větrné mlýny (drama)
2013 Svobodný prostor jazyka (essay)
2016 Correspondances • Correspondencias • Korrespondentziak (Korespondence s Angelem Erro. Trojjazyčné vydání.) (correspondence)
2017 Antialkorán aneb nejasný svět T. H. (essay)
2017 La fin du monde n’aurait pas eu lieu (The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place)