Igor Malijevský

Igor Malijevský, Czech poet, photographer and writer was born in Prague in 1970. He studied theoretical physics as well as philosophy at Charles University, were he graduated in 1996. Since the mid-1990s he has devoted himself primarily to photography and writing. He has published four books of poetry and two collections of short stories, including Moon Above the Tagus River (2014) which is represented in anthology “Best European Fiction 2018”. He co-established EKG, a well-known monthly literary cabaret in Prague and regularly cooperates with Czech Radio. His BW analog photographs have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Europe, USA, China, South Korea and other countries. He published three photobooks including Signs of Lvov (2016), a book of poetic BW images from this Ukrainian town accompanied by texts in Czech, Ukrainian, and English. Recently he is regularly returning to Ukraine to capture its everyday live during the war. He has been awarded by Czech Press Photo twice.