Michal Jareš

Michal Jareš (1973) trained as a machinery and equipment mechanic at the LIAZ Vocational School in Jablonec nad Nisou and went on to study the theory and history of dramatic arts at the Faculty of Arts at Palacky University in Olomouc. Since 1999 he has worked at the Institute for Czech Literature at the Czech Academy of Sciences and is an editor of the literary bi-weekly Tvar. He made his literary debut in 1994, with a book of poetry Tanec v začínajícím létě (Dance at the Beginning of Summer) which was followed by books of poems: Definitivní dětství (Definitive Childhood, 1995), Plameny vody (Flames of Water), 1996, Prospal jsi hedvábí (You Slept Through Silk), 1998, a Brzo je k lásce Pozdě k řečem (Early for Love, Late for Talk), 2001. Some of his books were published in limited editions, short stories and collections of poems Zrosyvstání (Fromdewrising), 1999 and Výtěžek (Extract), 2000. In 2003, in collaboration with Pavel Janáček, he compiled an annotated list of dime novels from the 1930s and 1940s, published under the title of Svět rodokapsu (World of Dime Novels). In 2006 he published a book of poems Kdo dnům rozumí (Who Understands the Days). He is one of the co-authors of the four volumes of Dějiny české literatury 1945–1989 (History of Czech Literature 1945-1989). His name has appeared in a number of anthologies of poetry and his reviews, poems, comments, essays and papers are regularly published in a number of magazines.