Templar heritage
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Templar heritage
A new series by a bestselling Czech author, interweaving the present with the past
Afrodita Rossová, a young linguist and historian, completed her studies at prestigious foreign universities and returned to the Czech Republic after the Velvet Revolution. She inherited a decent fortune from her parents, is pretty, smart and loves her job. In connection with the apparent suicide of a professor from the faculty, she is approached by a former classmate, Jan, for whom she begins translating the diary of William of Lipá from Latin. In it he stumbles upon a message about a hidden Templar treasure. Together they begin to search for him, and Aphrodite's fate bears a striking resemblance to that of the 16th century. Events from the distant past seem to come to life and everything is heading towards a dramatic climax, in which the murderer is revealed, love and betrayal are not missing and, of course, the legacy of the Templars.
Vlastimil Vondruska
He studied history and ethnography at Charles University in Prague, worked at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and then at the National Museum in Prague. About 50 scientific studies and the first short stories date from that time. For over thirty years he has been a mountaineer. After the revolution in 1989, he founded a glassworks where he produced copies of historical glass. At that time he returned to writing fiction and has been a freelance writer since 2007. To date, he has published some 70 historical novels and detective stories, several children's books and, together with his wife, 20 popular history books. According to statistics from the National Library, he has been the most widely read Czech author for many years, selling nearly two million printed books and over 100,000 audiobooks, and several titles have been published abroad. He is also the author of the screenplay for the film In the Name of the King, as well as a writer of radio and stage plays. He has received numerous literary awards (e.g. the IBBY Award, the Czech Learned Society Award, the Honorary Award of the Mensa, the MOBA Readers' Prize). His novel The Hussite Epic won the Bestseller of the Year title in 2015. He also writes journalism, for which he received the Kramer Prize from the Association of Independent Media. In 2017, he received a state award for literature from President Miloš Zeman.
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