Pavel Hak



Pavel Hak (born 1962 in Tábor) is a Czech author. He lives in France and writes in French.

Career
Exiled to France in 1986, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He writes in French. He has published six books, Safari, Sniper, Lutte à mort, Trans (Trans won the Prix Wepler in 2006), Warax and Vomito negro though the second is the only one published in English translation. Sniper (2005) is a graphic account of genocide and torture in an unnamed country. It met with largely positive reviews on publication in the UK and the USA.