Murín's Awkwardness Hits a Sensitive Spot

Slovak scandal at the Prague book fair.

The director of the Slovak Literary Center, Gustáv Murín, who is a protégé of the Minister of Culture Martina Šimkovičová (for the SNS), has been escalating the rift at the World of Books festival in Prague. At a public event on Saturday, he was approached by Ivana Svobodová, a journalist for the Czech weekly Respekt, and asked for an explanation of some of the opinions he had presented on disinformation channels. In his response, Murín began to…