Jan Němec (1981) Czech Republic

writer, journalist, and publicist

Jan Němec is a Czech writer, journalist, and publicist. He is the author of a biographical novel about the life of Czech modernist photographer and artist František Drtikol, A History of Light (2013), for which he received the European Union Prize for Literature. He also wrote the auto-fiction novel Možnosti milostného románu (Ways of Writing About Love, 2019), which was nominated for the Magnesia Litera Award, or Liliputin: Povídky z války (Liliputin, Stories from the War, 2022). Together with Petr Vizina, he compiled a book of interviews on spirituality titled Znamení neznámého (Signs of the unknown, 2021). Since 2022 he has been editor-in-chief of the HOST literary magazine.