During the literary-musical evening, the authorial and sibling duo of brothers Jan and Stanislav Zatloukal will present the "French" exile reflections of the writer Jan Čep and the very first monograph dedicated to the multifaceted personality of the priest and poet Jiří Víchy.
The presentation of the books will be interspersed with set-to-music poems by Jiří Víchy 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, the personality of the silenced church is based on his dissertation. He is a priest of the Olomouc diocese and serves in Holešov.
Jan Zatloukal, born in 1978, studied French and Czech philology at the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University in Olomouc and comparative literature at Université Paris-Est and UP at the postgraduate level. He teaches French language, French literature, and Czech-French cultural relations at the Department of Romance Studies at the Faculty of Arts at UP and directs the French Centre at 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 serves as a church musician at the Church of St. Therese of Lisieux and the Beheading of St. John the Baptist in Prague 8. She is close to the cultures of the British Isles, Armenia, and the Baltic States, and complements her piano activity with composing piano pieces, playing the flute, Celtic harp, and kantele.
The event is part of the program for the French culture festival Bonjour Olomouc 2025.
