Dr Zdeněk Lyčka

(born on 30 April 1958 in Frýdek-Místek)

Family status

Wife Dr. Viola Lyčková, daughter Barbora (born 1989), son Jan (born 1992)

Employment

2008- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to the Kingdom of Denmark

2007-2008 Director of the Department for Czechs Abroad, Culture and Promotion, MFA

2002-2007 Director of the Department for Cultural Relations and Czechs Living Abroad, MFA

1998-2002 Director of the Czech Centre in Stockholm

1997-1998 Director of the Department for Cultural Relations and Czechs Living Abroad, MFA

1996-1997 Director of the Cultural and Scientific Relations Department, MFA

1991-1996 Secretary and Counsellor at the Czech Embassy in Copenhagen

1990-1991 Referee at the Press Department, MFA

1983-1990 Systems Engineer - Palace of Culture, Intercontinental Hotel in Prague

Translator of Scandinavian and Anglo-American literature and films

Education

1989 PhDr. exam at Charles University, Prague (Nordic literature)

1987 Graduated from Charles University, Prague - Faculty of Arts, Modern Philology (Danish - English)

1981 Graduated from the Technical University of Ostrava - Faculty of Economics, Systems Engineering

Language skills

English, Danish, French, Swedish, Norwegian, German

Publication activities and lectures

- about 100 press articles and other texts on Scandinavia, culture and Czech expatriates in:

Mladá fronta DNES, Hospodářské noviny, Lidové noviny, Moravskoslezský den, Respekt, Reflex, Lidé a Země, Severské listy, České listy, Dansk-Tjekkisk Dialog, Bulletinen - Svensk-Tjeckisk-Slovakiska Föreningen, etc.

- translations of Nordic and Anglo-American literature and films, own literary activities:

dailies and magazines: Literární noviny, Iniciály, Světová literatura

Czech Television, Czech Radio

publishing houses: Argo, Aurora, Hrana, Svoboda, Trifid, Zlatý Kůň, etc.

- lectures on the Czech Republic, on the relations of the Czech Republic with the EU and the Francophonia, on cultural and expatriates 'issues, North Europe and Greenland

- award within Josef Jungmann Prize 1998 for the translation of the "Greenlandic Myths and Legends" by Knud Rasmussen

 

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