Librarian/Curator for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Background
Bianca Bellová's The Lake
November 8, 2022, 4:00–5:30 pm PDT
This event was a reading and Q&A with the Czech author Bianca Bellová, award-winning author of The Lake (2016). It was hosted by the UCLA Library and the Czech Consulate General in Los Angeles.
Organized by Alena Aissing (Librarian/Curator for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at UCLA Library) and Jaroslav Olša Jr. (Consul of the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles);
Promotional designs by Gissel Rios (Selection and Outreach Support Assistant)
Speaker
Bianca Bellová was born in Prague, where she lives halfway between the Balkan and British parts of her family. She is a translator and interpreter. Her novel The Lake has won several literary awards, including the EU Prize for Literature, and publication rights have been sold to twenty-one countries” (Czech Lit).
Moderator
Jaroslav Olša Jr. is a Czech diplomat whose posts include those of Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2000–2006), South Korea (2008–2014) and the Philippines (2014–2018), and Consul General in Los Angeles (2020–current); author of books on history, art, and literature of Asia and Africa. He is also a science fiction editor, translator, and bibliographer.
Session Recording
Selected Works
Dead Man by Date: 2011Nothing Happens All Day by
Date: 2013
The Lake by ISBN: 1913640523Date: 4/11/2022A dystopian page-turner about the coming of age of a young hero, which won the 2017 EU Prize for Literature. A fishing village at the end of the world. A lake that is drying up and, ominously, pushing out its banks. The men have vodka, the women troubles, the children eczema to scratch at. Born into this unforgiving environment, Nami, a young boy, embarks on a journey with nothing but a bundle of nerves, a coat that was once his grandfather's, and the vague idea of searching for his mother, who disappeared from his life at a young age. To uncover the greatest mystery of his life, he must sail across and walk around the lake, and finally dive to its bottom. The Lake is a raw account of life in a devastated land and the harsh, primitive circumstances under which people fight to survive.Mona by
Date: 2019These Fragments by
Date: 2021
