Saturnin

Zdeněk Jirotka's famous humorous novel in Vietnamese

Saturnin was first published in 1942. It has been published in more than twenty editions in the Czech language to date and its author is one of the national classics of Czech humorous literature. The novel has also been successfully adapted into film and television, and since its inception it has been reappearing as a theatrical production. In 2009, it became the most popular book in the Czech Television reader's poll "The Book of My Heart", and in 2018 it won the prestigious prize in the Magnesia Litera competition in the "Book of the Century" category. The edition with original colour illustrations by Adolf Born is also available in translations by renowned foreign bohemians: English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian. The present translation into Vietnamese was made by Mai Nguyen. Further language versions are in the pipeline.