Censorship and Finnish Literature in the Czech Republic. The Case Study of "Sweet Prince"

Abstract

Lecture at the International Autumn School of Finnish Studies on literary censorship in the Czech Republic during 1945/48-1989 and its impact on the publishing of Finnish Literature in Czech. Presentation of a case study on the translation of the novel by Christer Kihlman named "Sweet Prince".

Keywords

• literary censorship
• communism in Czechoslovakia
• Finland's literature
• translations of Finnish fiction into Czech
• Christer Kihlman
• Sweet Prince