Petr Rezek nominated for the F. X. Šalda Award

Prague - The F. X. Šalda Society has nominated five experts for its fourteenth annual award. The laureate of the 2009 award, which the society recognizes for extraordinary critical or editorial book work in the field of art and spiritual sciences, will be announced in April.
    The jury in the field of literature nominated the book by Jiří Brabec, The Domain of Ideology and the Power of Literature, subtitled Studies, Critiques, Portraits (1991-2008), published by Akropolis, and in the field of art criticism and thinking, the book by Anna Fárová, Two Faces (Torst publishing).
    In the field of film criticism, Petr Szczepanik is nominated for the book Cans with Words, subtitled The Beginnings of Sound Film and Czech Media Culture of the 1930s (Host publishing), in the field of theater criticism, Jana Pilátová with the publication Grotowski's Nest, subtitled On the Threshold of Theater Anthropology (Theater Institute), and the book by Petr Rezek Architectonics and Protoarchitecture (Silent Knob).
    The F. X. Šalda Society resumed its activities after nearly 40 years of prohibition in 1990. It awarded the Šalda Prize from 1995 to 1998 and after several years of hiatus, it has been awarding it again since 2002.
    The F. X. Šalda Prize highlights outstanding achievements in the field of artistic criticism (especially literary, theatrical, visual, film, and musical), extraordinary editorial works, and art-historical research. Previous laureates include Milan Jungmann, Vladimír Just, Jiří Cieslar, Lubomír Dorůžka, Karel Kraus, Karel Thein, and Jindřich Černý.