Marek Torčík

Marek Torčík (b. 1993, Přerov) is a poet, novelist, and journalist whose work unfolds in the shifting space between memory and language, between the fragmented and the continuous, between an intensely personal vantage point and the wider social and political contexts that shape individual experience. A graduate in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, he made his debut as a poet, with the collection Rhizomy (Rhizomes, 2016), and then as a novelist, with his prose debut Rozložíš paměť (Memory Burn, Paseka, 2023), which was awarded both the Magnesia Litera for Prose and the Jiří Orten Award for authors under thirty. Most recently, he published Šedá podél cest (Grey Along the Roads, 2025), a compact, poetically charged work of short prose that extends his inquiry into memory and witnessing into a climate-marked present.