Our Events

The meeting over Scandinavian books by the publishing house Host, organized byScandinavian House, will offer tips for (not only) Christmas presents. Together withtranslators and editors Nikola Kochová, Pavla Nejedlá and Hana Švolbová, we will presentselected titles published during the past … Read More

Like every year, the time has come to convene a meeting of the General Assembly, a body of association made up of all lawful members. This will take place on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 7 pm at the Scandinavian House … Read More

In September, Martina Šímová, a translator from Finnish, will be a guest of the Nordic Literary Salon. Her translation of Finnish author Katja Kallio’s novel The Translucent Heart, which tells the story of forbidden love between a Finnish woman and … Read More

In February we shall take our literary salon to Denmark’s capital – Copenhagen. Together with Lada Halounová, a translator from Danish, we will discuss the world’s rediscovery of Tove Ditlevsen’s Copenhagen Trilogy. The Czech translation was published by Host in … Read More

We will start the year 2023 with a literary salon dedicated to texts that are more than a hundred years old, yet still relevant. With the translator from Swedish, Viola Somogyi, we will talk about the newly translated selection from … Read More

The event will focus on Finland-Swedish literature – books written by Finland-Swedes, a Swedish speaking minority that has for many centuries lived especially on the southwest coast of Finland. You will learn more about history and the present situation of … Read More

The last salon before Christmas will introduce the book Night Express (Nattexpressen) by Karin Erlandsson, the Finland’s Swedish author. Translated by Jan Marek Šík, it is a perfect book for the time of long, freezing nights. The Czech translation was … Read More

Like every year, the time has come to convene a meeting of the General Assembly, a body of association made up of all lawful members. This will take place on Monday, December 5, 2022 at 6 pm at the Scandinavian House Office, … Read More

Scandinavian countries are fascinating not only with their nature, culture and lifestyle but also when it comes to the number of languages that can be found there. Some of them, such as Danish, Norwegian or Swedish are North Germanic, and … Read More

We are back after the summer break! Now let’s visit Iceland. Martina Kašparová, a translator from Icelandic, will tell us more about her newest translation: The Fires: A Novel by Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir. Published in Czech in 2022 by the … Read More

In June, the guest of the Nordic literary salon online will talk to us from Northern Sweden! The translator from Swedish, Klára Fafejtová, will introduce the book Animals and Their Feelings written by Swedish ethologist Per Jensen. The event will … Read More

Nordfest, the festival of Scandinavian feature and short films, follows up the Nordic Film Thursdays project. On seven evenings, the visitors will have an opportunity to see movies of all genres – from a comedy and a historical movie to … Read More

The time has come for some Scandinavian classics! Julie Minaříková and Martin Mokrý will tell us about the unique reportage about the Baltic countries of the 1930s-1940s, The Truth About Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, written by nobody else than one … Read More

In April, the Nordic literary salon will take the audience to Iceland. The main focus will be the memoirs Life with Iceland, written by Helena Kadečková and edited and published by Daniela Iwashita, who will be the guest of the salon. The event will … Read More

February issue of the Nordic literary salon online will lead us to the world of fantasy. Jitka Jindřišková, the translator of Siri Petterssen’s latest book The Iron Wolf, will tell us more about the work of this acclaimed Norwegian author. … Read More

Like every year, it is time to convene a meeting of the General Assembly, a body of association made up of all lawful members. This will take place on Friday, December 17, 2021 at 5.30 pm at the Scandinavian House … Read More

The topic of already the twelfth year of the festival of Nordic culture is facts versus fiction. Nordic Days 2021 will begin with a (first-ever in the Czech Republic in cinemas!) screening of the Swedish documentary Stieg Larsson: The Man … Read More

This October, the translator from Swedish, Helena Stiessová, is the guest of the Nordic literary salon. The discussion will be about Insta-Brain,the book written by Swedish psychiatrist Anders Hansen. The event will be streamed on our Facebook page on Monday, October 11, … Read More

Marie Voslářová, a translator from Swedish, will be the (online) guest of the April Nordic Literary Salon. Her task will be to introduce The Reddest Rose, the new Czech translation of a comic book written and drawn by Liv Strömquist. … Read More

In March, the salon is going to introduce Kateřina Krištůfková, the translator from Norwegian. The topic of the debate is going to be the book Ruth Maier’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Life Under Nazism, which has been put together (from … Read More

The Scandinavian House presents an online debate about Ingmar Bergman, one of the most important personalities of Swedish film and theatre. We will talk with Zbyněk Černík, a translator from Swedish who has translated numerous Bergman’s films and books to … Read More

How did Czech travellers see Denmark in the beginning of the 20th century? Which places did enchant them and what did they think of the Danish citizens?  Come and set out in the footsteps of Karel Čapek, Arnošt Kraus, Václav … Read More

The road in its various meanings is the theme of this year’s Nordic Days – annual festival of Nordic culture. The main guest of the festival in Brno will be the Icelandic author Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (awarded 2018 Nordic Council … Read More

At the beginning of October, Swedish author, journalist and expert on artificial languages, Yens Wahlgren, will visit Prague. He has already introduced himself to the Czech audience with his book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy of Languages, which has … Read More

Katariina Lillqvist is a Finnish director and screenwriter, who has for a long time been living and working in the Czech Republic. The local animation has enchanted her to the point that she decided to study and, in the end, … Read More

How do you spice up a crime story? Swedish writer Mons Kallentoft will introduce the tenth volume of the Devils Scent saga that has just been translated into Czech. With Michal Sýkora, the author of the stories of Marie Výrová, … Read More

The spring of this year will revolve around Norwegian literature. Prague will host the Norwegian humorist Roger Pihl (Mannen som ikke ville hjem; The Man that Didn‘t Want To Go Back Home) and comic book writer Marta Breen (Kvinner i … Read More

Politics is fun The Icelandic actor and comedian Jón Gnarr had often contemplated whether it was possible to make fun of everything. Is for example appropriate nowadays to joke about such a topic as politics? He came to a conclusion … Read More

Ten diverse topics, fifty questions. The Brno branch of the Scandinavian House invites you to join our Nordic quiz night. Do you want to test your knowledge of the Scandinavian countries? To find out if your strong side is the … Read More

Like every year, it is time to convene a meeting of the General Assembly, a body of association made up of all lawful members. This will take place on Friday 2 March 2018 at 18:00 at Goethe Institut in Prague, … Read More

Contemporary Danish literature will be the highlight of February 2018. Peter Høeg, a well-known Danish writer, is coming to Prague, joined by poet Knud Steffen Nielsen. Two film adaptations will be screened in the Evald Cinema. To experience Danish culture … Read More

Reading excerpts from Fridtjof Nansenʼs diaries, written during his 1893–1896 polar expedition on the Fram ship, in the authentic settings of (A)void Floating Gallery. We set sail on 6 February 2018 at 7:30 PM. In 1893, the Norwegian explorer of … Read More

The Scandinavian House Brno joins the celebration of independent Finland’s 100th anniversary by two special events: EAT&READ FINLAND Tuesday, October 3, 5.30 p.m. Otevřená zahrada (Údolní 33, Brno) A special culinary and literary event Eat&Read Finland that gives you an … Read More

The Scandinavian House in cooperation Evald Cinema and CinemArt  would like to invite you to the screening of the Icelandic drama VOLCANO (Eldfjall, Iceland, 2011, 95 min) Directed and screenplay by: Rúnar Rúnarsson Starring: Theodór Júlíusson, Margrét Helga Jóhannsdóttir, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Benedikt Erlingsson, Elma Lísa Gunnarsdóttir,  Katla Margrét Þorgeirsdóttir, Ágúst … Read More

Studio Scala together with the Scandinavian House invite you to join a workshop of animation for children that takes place to commemorate the 110th birth anniversary of Astrid Lindgren. During the event, you will have the opportunity to get to … Read More

Reading from old Czech travel books about Iceland. How was Iceland seen by Czech travellers decades and centuries ago? What notes on Icelanders and their life style and habits left us Daniel Strejc Vetter, who visited the island in the … Read More

The Scandinavian House in cooperation Evald Cinema and CinemArt  would like to invite you to the screening of the Icelandic drama FEROX (Falskur fugl, Iceland, 2013, 76 min) Director: Þórómar Jónsson Starring: Styr Júlíusson, Rakel Björk Björnsdóttir, Kristján Hafþórsson, Ísak Hinriksson, Davíð … Read More

The Scandinavian House in cooperation Evald Cinema and CinemArt  would like to invite you to a screening of a Swedish  film MY SO-CALLED FATHER (SWE, 2014, 122 min) Directors: Ulf Malmros Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Sverrir Gudnason, Vera Vitali, Henrik Dorsin, Tova Magnusson-Norling IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2923652/ Pregnant … Read More

The Scandinavian House in cooperation with Evald Cinema presents Jostein Gaarder on Screen – a film festival featuring movies based on a few books by the world-famous Norwegian author. Jostein Gaarder is beyond doubt one of the most-read contemporary Norwegian writers – … Read More

The Scandinavian House, the Scandinavian Section and the Finnish Section at the Department of Germanic Studies of the Faculty of Arts at the Charles University are holding a conference on the Czech-Nordic relations in literature within the #ReadNordic campaign. The lectures focus … Read More

The Scandinavian House in cooperation with Evald Cinema and CinemArt within the Nordic Film Thursdays project presents the Icelandic movie KING’S ROAD (Kóngavegur, Iceland, 2010, 93 min) Director: Valdís Óskarsdóttir Starring: Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Daniel Brühl,  Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Hanna María Karlsdóttir, Ingvar Eggert … Read More

By the late 1960s, Western Europe was swallowed by a red fog – radical leftist thinking inspired by Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, and above all by Mao Zedong. In some countries, protest movements gradually evolved from leftist democratic thinking … Read More

The Brno branch of the Scandinavian House and the Moravian Library in Brno invite you to the lecture Gods and Heroes of the Kalevala. How do we see the ancient world of Finnish mythology today? Why is the heroic epic, … Read More