Michal Ajvaz was born in 1949 in Prague
Masakra kalaczakra (Kalachakra massacre)
Monogamy elaborates an ideology of romance from extraordinary poems and songs
It is full of sentences which dizzy the reader with the hilarity of their close-packed variety of tone: low argot sabotages an elaborate metaphor in elevated language like Harpo Marx goosing Margaret Dumont
He currently lives in Paris
Is There Anybody to Love You? Poetics Michal Ajvaz was born inIn these pages, you will meet the Collector of Valuable Things (packs of cigarettes, love letters, a magpies feather), a private eye at the end of his rope, and a young boy coming to terms, like the rest of us, with the mysteries of his existence. Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. A hymn to the city of Sofia, a series of whimsical character portraits, a literary mural of Bulgaria at the beginning of the twenty first century, Is There