The name of Jan Kostrhun, renowned Moravian writer, appears again in connection with the publication of his new series of three novels “Celebrations of an Ordinary Day”.

The whole series consists of the novels “The Holidays” (describing a story of the last holidays and first steps in the life of the young main character in Moravia. The story was also made into a film.) The second of the series, “The Wine Harvest” is a ballade about indestructibility and beauty of life describing a new bond between a grand-father and his grand-son and it was also made into a film. These two stories are the author’s favourites. The series is completed with the third part called “Celebrations of an Ordinary Day” which features many photographs from young Moravian photographers as they photograph things that he has been trying to describe in words during his career. Apart from impressive photographs of the Pálava, Lednice-Valtice area, the people and the author himself who live here and make up the folklore of local scenery around the river Dyje, the book contains the author’s reflections on his work, emphasising Moravia as an extraordinary region where people experience those ordinary moments , those celebrations of our daily life that we should not miss.

The series was first presented to the public on Sunday, 16 May 2010, at The Rowing Club of Břeclav mainly because this book was published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of opening the passage on the river Dyje and the Břeclav boating company acted as co-publishers. A Moravian singer Jožka Černý made an appearance at this event as well as a cimbalom music band “Notečka”. Jan Kostrhun is a prosaic, publicist and a screenwriter. He was born in Podivín on 3 July 1942. Originally he worked as a civil engineer in the years of 1985-1989, then a screenwriter in Gottwaldov film studios, writing has been his profession since 1991. In 1992 he was an elected MP for the then still Czechoslovakian parliament, and from 1996-2002 he worked as an MP for the Czech parliament. He has been a member of the television and radio broadcasting committee since 2003.