Magical Classmate
E-book, Czech
Magical Classmate
Maruška and Martin are classmates who fall in love with each other. Maruška, known as Mája, one day confides in Martin about her magical abilities. Unlike in typical fantasy stories, Mája doesn't use magic items or spells to cast magic, but rather the “mere” power of her will.
For example, she can bend time so that a five-minute school test can last ten minutes, bend space like a pancake, slow down a falling branch over an unsuspecting classmate, walk through walls, and turn light into a hot, glowing liquid.
The two classmates, in love and on the cusp of adolescence, embark not only on space adventures (they get close to the core of Europa, fly through a black hole) but also many earthly ones. When was the last time you had a tomato fight or secretly ventured into a castle's alchemy workshop?
Ondřej Hník is a university lecturer and an award-winning author of books for children and adults, focusing on both poetry and prose. He regularly appears at author readings and organises and hosts literary and literary-cultural events, including international ones.
He is a member and chairman of juries for major literary competitions, including the Magnesia Litera competition (jury member in 2025). By 2012, he had won 17 awards in literary competitions. In 2014, he received the Albatros Publishing House Annual Award for 2013 (winner of the literary text for older children category for the poetry collection Malý pražský chodec) and in 2018, the Albatros Publishing House Annual Award for 2017 (achievement in popular science literature for children for the book Můj atlas Česka).
In 2024, he presented his books in Toronto, Canada, where readers showed unprecedented interest. The Magical Classmate is the author's 19th book.
