Czech Writers’ Association

The Czech Writers’ Association (Asociace spisovatelů) is a Czech professional organization that, since 2015, has brought together Czech poets and prose writers. It promotes a professional conception of literary work and its prestige, offers a platform for formulating professional interests toward state institutions and private entities, a place to share professional experience, and provides information and legal services to authors. It also represents Czech poets and prose writers to the public and to publishers, seeking “fair trade” conditions for authors. The association was founded in late 2014 in response to a growing need for a functional and effective professional organization. Its highest body is the Members’ Assembly, which meets once a year, and its statutory body is a five-member Committee headed by a chairperson.

The Czech Writers’ Association (Asociace spisovatelů) was founded in late 2014 as a response to a growing need for a functional and effective professional organization. Since 2015 it has brought together Czech poets and prose writers. It promotes a professional conception of literary work and its prestige, and offers a platform on which professional interests can be formulated toward state institutions and private entities, a place to share professional experience, and information and legal services for authors. It represents Czech poets and prose writers to the public, and in relation to publishers and other organizers of literary life it seeks “fair trade” conditions for authors. Its highest body is the Members’ Assembly, which meets once a year, and its statutory body is a five-member Committee headed by a chairperson. Among its goals is the establishment of a Literary House in Prague that would serve authors, translators and the public and become a natural center of literary life; it also contributes to the promotion of Czech literature at home and abroad and supports sponsorship and patronage in culture.

Professional association promoting a professional conception of literary work and its prestige, and advocating “fair trade” conditions for authors.

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