20. PRAGUE WRITER´S FESTIVAL

Travels of Imagination

Prague Writers´ Festival continues to feature the great authors who will participate on its 20th anniversary.

After Nobel prize area and the beauty and insanity of the South the festival brings you into the Travels of

Imagination. The novelist Iain Bank and Michal Ajvaz are now presented on http://www.pwf.cz/en/pwf-2010/. As always, bios,

pictures, interviews and excerpts brings you into the path of their Travels of Imagination.

Michal Ajvaz

Michal Ajvaz: Novelist, essayist, poet—his writing recreates Prague, opening its

streets and its buildings to an unexpected vision. “The beginning is something

more terrifying than chaos. Chaos is always an accessory to order and belongs to

our world—whereas the beginning is the quiet, feebleminded guffaw of a mad

god, from which the Word will be articulated. ”

Iain Banks

Iain Banks: Scottish rebel, he uses his science fiction and fiction works as a

mirror—showing us the reality of the World—forcing us to act as pure rebels.

“Truth is what matters; not just as an abstract concept but as part of a practical

process. We need to search for truth through reason, observation and experiment—

that’s what really matters. The rest is just fairy stories.”