The Czech poet Radek Fridrich (b. 1968) has published eleven volumes of poetry, including the collection Krooa krooa (the title mimics a raven’s call), which won the Magnesia Litera for Poetry in 2012. He comes from the town of Děčín on the Czech-German border, and his poetry is intimately tied to the physical and cultural landscape of these borderlands – from the forests and sandstone rock formations around Děčín to the mixed Czech-German culture that existed there for centuries. He studied Czech and German philology at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, and is himself a translator; he has also illustrated his own collections of poetry. His books include Řeč mrtvých / Die Totenrede (Speech of the Dead, published in a bilingual Czech and German edition in 2001), Erzherz (2002), Molchloch (Newttown, named after a neighborhood in Děčín, 2004), Žibřid (2006), and Nebožky / Selige (Departed Women, also published in both Czech and German, 2011).