Everything will be cool (Všechno bude super): The new novel by Eli Beneš has been selected for the 2026 Susanna Roth Award—an annual competition in which young emerging translators work on a piece of contemporary Czech prose. Established in 2014, the award is named after the renowned Swiss translator Susanna Roth (1950–1997), who played a…

A major success for Eli Beneš: His novel A Slight Loss of Loneliness becomes the very first Czech book ever selected for presentation to film producers at Books at Berlinale. From nearly 100 submissions worldwide, only ten titles with the strongest cinematic potential were chosen — and his is among them. The project will be…