Martin Lukáš

literary critic

Martin Lukáš studied Czech language and literature, English language and literature, philosophy, and literary theory at the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc.  Since 2017, he has been working at the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where he focuses on 20th-century Czech literature, especially the war years, and contemporary literature. He has worked on the editorial boards of Aluze and the literary journal Bohemia Olomucensia, is an editor of the journal Texty, and is a regular contributor to A2. He has contributed to the collective publications Literary Chronicle of the First Republic, Events, Works, Contexts (Literární kronika první republiky, Události, díla, souvislosti, 2018) and History of Czech Literature in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, (Dějiny české literatury v Protektorátu Čechy a Morava, 2022). He edited an anthology of Vladimír Vokolek's poetry Whatever I Write, (Cokoli píšu, 2023).