michael stein

Writer, Editor at Karolinum Press and B O D Y, focusing on Central and Eastern European novels and the people who write them.

[Ági Bori Mottern @agiborimottern]

I am incredibly excited to have this amazing short story by @literalab out in the world in my Hungarian translation, published in KULTer. Link to the original in the comments.
https://t.co/e0Tpi6upQe

[michael stein @literalab]

The English version: https://t.co/ybQfxaGpEx

[michael stein @literalab]

Very excited to have my short story 'Literary Theft' translated by Agi Bori into Hungarian and published in Kulter magazine.
In case you can't read Hungarian, a link to the original is in the comment below. https://t.co/zx6UihE81J

[Karolinum Press @KarolinumPress]

We’re thrilled to share that The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood, has been shortlisted for the Freudenheim Translation Prize 🎊

🎥 Join us online tomorrow, Thursday, 12 February at 7 PM CET for the live announcement, where the prize winner will be revealed. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for Julia and Peter! ✊

https://t.co/peqjr7ES08

📚 The Last Thing is part of the Modern Slovak Classics series, which introduces readers to seminal works from late 19th and 20th century Slovak writers. English readers can experience the richness and variety of Slovak literature, from the realist and the satirical to the naturalist, from lyricial fiction to literary reportage and memoirs, all the way through existentialist and postmodern works.

@JuliaSherwood @UChicagoPress @jlfbookweek

[Karolinum Press @KarolinumPress]

On 27 November, Julia Sherwood, Peter Darovec, Martin Janeček and Michael Stein talked about our Modern Slovak Classics series at the Artforum bookshop in Bratislava.
@JuliaSherwood @literalab @ARTFORUM_Kozia

[Karolinum Press @KarolinumPress]

Ve čtvrtek 27. 11. 2025 od 18 hodin se v bratislavském knihkupectví Artforum uskuteční večer věnovaný edici Modern Slovak Classics.

Překladatelka Julia Sherwood a Martin Janeček a Michael Stein z Nakladatelství Karolinum budou diskutovat o vzniku edice, mezinárodní recepci slovenské literatury a překladatelských výzvách. Moderuje literární vědec Peter Darovec.

Více o akci:
https://t.co/xmpPkzjF8B

Více o edici Modern Slovak Classics: https://t.co/UQkGQf4NTf

@ARTFORUM_Kozia @JuliaSherwood @literalab

[Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts]

“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola, tr. by Julia and Peter Sherwood @KarolinumPress @JuliaSherwood
https://t.co/BuWJiFfQuE

[Karolinum Press @KarolinumPress]

@roughghosts Thank you so much! Great to hear you like the font.

[Karolinum Press @KarolinumPress]

On September 29, literary scholar Tim Beasley-Murray, translator Julia Sherwood and Karolinum Press editor Jan Zikmund discussed two newly translated Slovak classics from Karolinum Press, Alfonz Bednár’s "The Hours and the Minutes" and Leopold Lahola’s "The Last Thing", at @Hatchards in London.

@JuliaSherwood @timb_m @jnzikmund

[Karolinum Press @KarolinumPress]

A Czech literature Starter Pack: The book reviewer Jennifer Jelinkova @InsertLitPun presents the classic novel „We Were a Handful“ by Karel Poláček from our Modern Czech Classics series!
https://t.co/BLn5pLnESa

[Karolinum Press @KarolinumPress]

Next Monday at Hatchards Piccadilly: UK launch of two Slovak masterpieces in English – "The Hours and the Minutes" by Alfonz Bednár & "The Last Thing" by Leopold Lahola. Join scholar Tim Beasley-Murray, translator Julia Sherwood and editor Jan Zikmund for a fascinating discussion!

@timb_m @jnzikmund @Hatchards @CzechCentreLnd

[Karolinum Press @KarolinumPress]

We warmly invite you to the UK launch of two newly translated Slovak classics from Karolinum Press: "The Hours and the Minutes" by Alfonz Bednár (tr. David Short) and "The Last Thing" by Leopold Lahola (tr. Julia & Peter Sherwood) at Hatchards Piccadilly on 29 Sept, 6:30pm with Tim Beasley-Murray, Julia Sherwood and Jan Zikmuned. Join us!

@Hatchards @CzechCentreLnd @timb_m @JuliaSherwood @jnzikmund

[michael stein @literalab]

B O D Y | New translated fiction by Katarína Kucbelová https://t.co/NTdmQ4khO5

[B O D Y @bodylit]

"If our parents were here, they would already have sent us to bed. / And once again, I wouldn’t notice that it’s my younger brother / with whom I’m having the longest relationship of my life."

Read a #poem by Czech #poet Ondřej Macl

https://t.co/5ZfEklJSl2

[michael stein @literalab]

Reading+talk tomorrow evening in Chicago.

[Alan Bilton, Author @ABiltonAuthor]

Many thanks to the learned folk at Karolinum Press in Prague for sending me a copy of Leopold Lahola's The Last Thing, a Slovakian masterpiece whose sober, meticulous prose feels more like an absurd nightmare...
a whole universe of cruelty, humiliation and pain.

[michael stein @literalab]

@johnpaul_newman I had trouble picking out Kendrick Lamar in that crowd.

[Karolinum Press @KarolinumPress]

We cordially invite you to a lecture by Helena Čapková in the Twentieth Century Society in London: On 26 February, she will give a talk here on the architectural work of Antonin Raymond (1888-1976) in postwar Japan.

Helena Čapková is an Associate Professor of Art History at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. She has published extensively on the transnational entanglements and intersections between Czech and Japanese designers in the early part of the 20th century. Her curatorial practice has resulted in exhibitions in Japan, the US and the Czech Republic.

https://t.co/MjFgpVkktj

@C20Society @CzechCentreLnd

[michael stein @literalab]

My interview with Trafika Europe on Literalab, fiction in translation and my writing- https://t.co/zRAkDe16Rm