During the literary-music evening, the authorial and sibling duo of brothers Jan and Stanislav Zatloukal will present the "French" exile reflections of writer Jan Čep and the very first monograph dedicated to the multifaceted personality of priest and poet Jiří Vícha.
The presentation of the books will be interspersed with sung poems by Jiří Vícha performed by composer and pianist Gwiwer Avedisyan.
Stanislav Zatloukal, born in 1976, studied biology at the Faculty of Science and theology at the Cyril and Methodius Theological Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc, and then pursued postgraduate studies in spiritual theology at CMTF in Olomouc. The book Jiří Vícha. Exercitátor and poet, a personality of the silenced church, is based on his dissertation. He is a priest of the Olomouc Diocese, working in Holešov.
Jan Zatloukal, born in 1978, studied French and Czech philology at the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University in Olomouc and postgraduate comparative literature at Université Paris-Est and UP. He teaches French language, French literature, and Czech-French cultural relations at the Department of Romance Studies at FF UP and manages the French Centre UP.
Gwiwer Avedysian (real name Marie Jenovéfa Kučerová) studied piano and musicology in Prague and currently teaches piano at the ZUŠ in Prague 6 – Petřiny. She also works as a church musician at the church of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and the Beheading of St. John the Baptist in Prague 8. She is close to the culture of the British Isles, Armenia, and the Baltic States and complements her piano activity with composing piano pieces, playing flute, Celtic harp, and kantele.
The event is part of the program of the French culture festival Bonjour Olomouc 2025.
