PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Novotný, Vladimír
TI  - The Mysterious Mr Bigstain and Price Pause the Miloslav Švandrlík Prize
DP  - 2024 Nov 24
TA  - Bohemica Olomucensia
PG  - 142--151
VI  - 16
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/bo.2024.013
IS  - 1803876X
AB  - In 2012, under the auspices of the Writers' Association, the Prize for Humorous Literature was established, named after the popular representative of this genre, Miloslav Švandrlík (1932-2009). Initially, it was awarded annually, but its rules and especially the composition of the individual juries have changed. Eventually, there was even a "price pause", with the year relating to books published in 2021 being initially omitted and then merged with the following year. The consequences of this "price pause" are summarised in a framework with reference to the books by the pseudonymous Sigi Bigstain, who created a humorous trilogy about the fate of the contemporary Švejk, representing the grandson of the good soldier, from the pen of Jaroslav Hašek.