Slovníczek


This authorial book is an illustrated pseudo-dictionary of Czech-Polish tricky words, called false friends. It's the result of a bachelor's thesis defended in 2020 at the University of Hradec Králové under the supervision of Jakub Horský. Thanks to Erasmus, the project began in a Polish bakery, where I wanted to buy "czerstwy chleb" and left with the memory of the disgusted look on the sales clerk's face (because "czerstwy" means fresh in Czech but stale in Polish) ... Slovníczek was nominated by the Hollar Foundation for the most beautiful book of 2020. As part of his final thesis, he was awarded the Marian Szyjkowski Prize of the Polish Institute in Prague for the best bachelor's thesis in the non-Polish studies category.
sklep = shop (pl) / basement (cz) 
obłuda = hypocrisy (pl) / monster (cz)
kwiecień = April (pl) / May (cz)
szukanie = to look for (pl) / to fuck (cz) — looking for czech-polish tricky words aka false friends 
artysta = artist (pl) / acrobat (cz)
czerstwy = musty (pl) / fresh (cz)
zachód = western (pl) / toilet (cz)
ulewa = downpour (pl) / relief (cz)