Jiří Hájíček, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Czech writer
Date of Birth: 11-Sep-1967
Place of Birth: České Budějovice, South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
Profession: writer
Nationality: Czech Republic
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Jiří Hájíček
- Jirí Hájícek (born 11 September 1967 in Ceské Budejovice) is a contemporary South Bohemian Czech writer.
- He started writing poetry in the 1980s in a youth poetry programme hosted by Mirek Kovárík.
- He won the 2006 Magnesia Litera prize for prose with his novel Selský baroko.
- In the European Society of Authors' 2013 Finnegan's List, Jaroslav Rudiš selected Hájícek's 2012 novel Rybí krev (Fish Blood) to be more widely translated into European languages.
- Rybí krev also won the Magnesia Litera Book of the Year for 2013.
- In 2016, his novel Zlodeji zelených koní was adapted into a film by Dan Wlodarczyk.
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