Bianca Bellová, author of novels and a collection of short stories, talked about her work Jezero (in Finnish Järvi), which was published in translation into Finnish by Kairaamo publishing house in June this year. The discussion was moderated by Susanna Räty, publisher and translator of the novel Jezero into Finnish. The event was interpreted in both Czech and Finnish by translator Eero Balk.

Bianca Bellová has won several awards for the novel Jezero (2016), including the European Union Prize for Literature and the EBRD Literature Prize. The rights to publish this work have been sold to more than twenty countries.

For those who could not attend, a recording of the event is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLFTPew_DIM

The discussion was organized by the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Helsinki, in cooperation with publishing house Kairaamo and Rosebud Sivullinen bookshop.

Photo: Czech Embassy in Helsinki