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foreign rights catalogue 2017 Host has long been one 3 of the most prestigious Czech publishers, especially in the area of contemporary Czech fiction, translated fiction, crime novels and thrillers, poetry, non-fiction and specialist literature. Now Host publishes children’s, SF, fantasy and YA literature, too. The roots and interests of Brno based Host in more than just its leading role in the sales Publishers are linked with the magazine charts. The content of its catalogue of the same name, which first appeared, of publications is of remarkably high in samizdat, in 1985. On the Czech book market quality and includes many leading writers Host now has the profile of a practically from abroad, including Jeffrey Eugenides, unique phenomenon. This is thanks to its well Olga Tokarczuk, Chimamanda Ngozi established editorial series, authors whose Adichie, Muriel Barbery, Fredrik Backman, names are among the most prestigious and Elena Chizhova and Czech writers including successful in Czech literature and the Host Antonín Bajaja, Radka Denemarková, monthly magazine, which reflects on and Jakuba Katalpa, Jan Němec, Ivana Myšková enriches the Czech literary scene. and Petra Dvořáková. Host provides Host has introduced to Czech opportunities for début authors, too, be they readers the crime novels of Stieg Larsson, poets, prose writers or scholars of literature David Lager crantz, Lars Kepler, Jussi Adler - (e.g. Matěj Hořava, Viktorie Hanišová, -Olsen, Peter May and Henning Mankell, Dita Táborská, Vladimíra Valová). which have been quick to occupy the top Host has also provided a home for of the sales charts. Books by Czech authors the prestigious Czech Library / Česká Kateřina Tučková, Petra Soukupová, knižnice series of high-quality editions Jan Balabán, Jiří Hájíček, Bianca Bellová of classic Czech works. Since 2009 Host has and Alena Mornštajnová have also become published annually a volume entitled The Best bestsellers. But Host can of course take pride Czech Poetry / Nejlepší české básně. Contents Alena Mornštajnová A Hana / Hana novel • 6 B Jakuba Katalpa The Den / Doupě novel • 7 C Petra Soukupová Who Killed Snowy? / Kdo zabil Snížka? children’s book • 8 Petra Soukupová D Best for Everybody / Nejlepší pro všechny novel • 9 Vladimíra Valová E To the Interior / Do vnitrozemí short stories • 10 A B C D E F G Ivana Myšková Daniel Klabal F White Animals Are Very Often Deaf / K Isidorias / Isidorias Bílá zvířata jsou velmi často hluchá historical novel • 16 short stories • 11 L Petra Dvořáková G Hana Kolaříková Everyone Has a Line to Hold / Real Leopard-skin Coat / Každý má svou lajnu Pravý leopardí kožich children’s book • 17 novel • 12 M Petra Stehlíková H Dita Táborská Faja / Faja Malinka / Malinka fantasy novel • 18 novel • 13 Pavel Bareš N Martina Leierová The Cronos Project / Projekt Kronos I House with a Borrowed View / fantasy novel • 19 Dům s vypůjčeným výhledem novel • 14 Eugen Liška jr. J The Creation / Stvoření novel • 15 H I J K L M N Alena Mornštajnová Hana / Hana 6 Alena Mornštajnová (born 1963) is a teacher of English and translator and author of three successful novels. Her debut novel Blind Map / Slepá mapa was shortlisted for the 2014 Czech Book Award. If there’s one thing that It’s 1954 and nine ‑year ‑old Mira goes to the river to ride the floating ice, something her parents have forbidden brings home the trueness her to do. She falls into the water, so exposing her of human life, it’s disobedience. As a punishment, she is given no dessert suffering. And if there’s one at a family party. This innocent childhood episode marks a major turning point in Mira’s life. It is followed thing that degrades life, by a tragedy that for many years binds her to her it’s the suffering someone taciturn, depressive aunt Hana and reveals a troubled family history that will continue to float like a block causes others. But what if of ice in the current of her life. this someone is innocent? Alena Mornštajnová’s story, which is based on real What if it’s all an accident? events, is told at such pace and with such drama that the reader might be watching a gripping movie. The big question is, will the fateful ice finally melt? published in march A truly great reading experience. An author who can describe 2017 suffering, a very mature manuscript, so much skill on display, none of it just for effect. What’s more, this book is a portrait novel of a town; it is a monument to Valašské Meziříčí. I can’t remember the last time I met something like this in contem­ hardback porary Czech prose. At last, a book you can really look forward to. 310 pp Jiří Trávníček, literary scholar, critic and historian isbn 978-80-7491-940-4 Jakuba Katalpa The Den / Doupě 7 Jakuba Katalpa (born 1979) is author of four books. Her novella Is Soil to Be Eaten? / Je hlína k snědku? was short- listed for a Magnesia Litera award in the Newcomer of the Year category (2007) and the novel The Bitter Sea / Hořké moře was shortlisted for the Jiří Orten Prize (2009). Katalpa’s novel The Germans / Němci received the Czech Book Award (2013) and the Josef Škvorecký Award (2013) and was shortlisted for a Magnesia Litera in the Prose category (2013); it has been published in 4 languages: German, Slovenian, Bulgarian and Macedonian. Missed encounters, To assuage feelings of loneliness and uselessness that have afflicted her since her husband’s death, Květa misunderstanding, creates a small room — a den — in the basement of her parallel lives and above all house. She is waiting for a visitor, to whom she will tell loneliness in a complex, her life story having first shut him up in the den. While Květa tends her prisoner, in America, Akiko multi -layered novel Ikeda is dying of cancer. The chemotherapy isn’t work- set in the present. ing, and Akiko’s husband is gradually losing hope that she will get better. By the award -winning Hoang Thi Anh leaves her native Vietnam and travels author. to distant Prague, where she will help her daughter with her household and small business. The estrangement she feels on arrival is familial and generational as well as cultural. The paths of the three protagonists briefly intersect published in september in Prague before each continues on her separate way. 2017 Few writers have succeeded in presenting the oft ‑worked theme novel of 20th ‑century Czech ‑German relations, war and totalitarian Europe by such sensitive use of a personal story. This story is hardback so much more than a frame in which to hang a grand historical landscape; it is a great, credible chronicle in itself. 312 pp Klára Kubíčková on the novel The Germans MF DNES( ) isbn 978-80-7577-128-5 Petra Soukupová Who Killed Snowy? / 8 Kdo zabil Snížka? Book illustrations by Tereza Ščerbová Tereza Ščerbová (born 1982) is a re- nowned artist and illustrator whose work has twice won the Zlatá stuha [Golden Ribbon] award — in 2015 for her illustrations for Cracks / Škvíry by Marka Míková (Argo, 2014) and two years later for Kooki / Krtník (Host, 2016), a book of her own authorship. Another extraordinary story When Martin said he wanted a dog, he had no idea how much trouble Snowy would cause. From a little white for young readers, this time puppy, he has grown into a dog most people in the vil- with a detective twist. lage dislike. Even Mum is frightened of him. So when Martin finds Snowy’s body, he’s pretty sure the dog’s death was no accident. But was Snowy really killed deliberately? With his friends Frankie, Charlie and Victor, Martin determines to get to the bottom of Snowy’s death, and the boys’ adventurous quest leads them to a surprise revelation. Petra Soukupová, best known as a successful author of fiction for adults, has followed the children’s book Bertie and the Snuffler with another book for children. published in october 2017 These two books — Who Killed Snowy? and Best for Everybody — do and do not belong together. Each is and children’s book is not a part of the other, as a child is and is not a part of his parents. And as the book‑child and book‑parent gradually give hardback up their stories, we come to understand that these are neither two separate stories nor the two halves of a whole. It is difficult 152 pp to explain. But it is like one hand taking another. isbn 978-80-7577-226-8 Tomáš Baldýnský Petra Soukupová Best for Everybody / 9 Nejlepší pro všechny draft cover Petra Soukupová (born 1982) is one of today’s most successful Czech writers. She has published four books for adults and two for children. She has won or been shortlisted for many prizes; her books appear regularly on the bestseller lists and have been translated into eight languages. Petra Soukupová also works as a dramaturge and screenwriter. A feature-film adaptation of her short story “On Short Leash” / “Na krátko” from the volume To Disappear / Zmizet will be released in 2018. If we don’t know how to be Ten-year-old Viktor is a spoiled troublemaker who lives in Prague with his mother Hana, a theatre actress who happy ourselves, how can struggles to manage her own life, let alone Viktor’s we know what’s best for upbringing. One day, Hana receives an offer to appear others? in a serial to be shot at the other end of the republic, which she sees as an opportunity to solve all her One of Viktor’s most problems.
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  • Baltic Tribunal Against the Soviet Union in Copenhagen, July 25 Ahd 26, 1985

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    PUBLISHED BY THENWORLD FEDERATION OF FREE LATVLANS Rockville, Maryland 20850 Edited by Ingrida Kalnins Cover Design by Teodors Liliensteins Photographs by Liutas Grinius Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 85 - 63678 TABLE OF CONTENTS * Preface .... ..... 1 by Olg'erts R. Pavlovskis, Ph.D. Chairman, Baltic World Conference * Introductory Remarks at the Baltic Tribunal . 2 by Olgerts R. Pavlovskis, Ph.D. Chairman, Baltic World Conference * The Indictment Against the Soviet Union . 3 Introduction .... 5 Indictment .... 6 -Conspiracy, aggression, and the illegal annexation of the Baltic States . 6 -Exploitation of the Baltic States . 7 -Deportation and systematic Russification of Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians with the purpose of eliminating their national identities, cultures, and languages . 8 -Violations of human rights . 9 Illegal actions of the Soviet Union . 9 -Soviet conspiracy against peace in Europe . 9 -Annexation of the Baltic States . 11 Intervention . 11 Occupation . 17 Annexation . 19 -Sovietization of the Baltic States . 24 Subjugation through terror . 25 Political subjugation . 27 Expropriation . 30 Colonization . 31 Economic exploitation . 38 TABLE OF CONTENTS Militarization . 45 Russification . 47 Genocide . 52 Violations of human rights 56 The Helsinki Agreement and the Baltic States 60 Summary . 62 References . .. 64 * The Panel of Judges Dr. Theodor Veiter, Chairman . 72 Per Ahlmark . 73 The Rev. Michael Bourdeaux . 74 Jean-Marie Daillet . 75 Sir James Fawcett . 76 * The Witnesses Kenneth Carter Benton Biography . 78 Testimony . .................................... 79 Rita Bruvere Biography . 83 Testimony . 84 Helena Celmina Biography . .. 92 Testimony . 94. Kestutis Jokubynas Biography . 100. Testimony . * . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 102 Imants Lesinskis Biography . 108 Testimony . : .. : : : : : : '. '. ., '. .. '. '. .. 1 0 9 Leila Miller Biography . 120 Testimony . .: . .. .. ., 121 TABLE OF CONTENTS Valdo Randpere Biography .