the novel "if you become a butterfly in the next life" was nominated for the final selection of the nin award 2013. the unpublished manuscript has been also nominated for the final selection of the miroslav dereta award of the same named publishing house a few years earlier. in a brief unexpected encounter, the fictional character martin falls in love with a woman who is found murdered shortly thereafter. he is then accused of being the prime suspect in the murder. the location of the plot is prague as a fantastically surreal background for the story, which already became a dark-mystical place in stories of kafka and perutz to world literary fame. the book of poems "what a dream of flowers" was translated into esperanto by zlatoje martinov.