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Czech Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in the Czech Republic or Czechoslovakia or whose writings are closely associated with those countries. A *Madeleine Albright (1937–2022), American politician, non-fiction writer, autobiographer, writing in English * Hana Andronikova (1967–2011)), novelist, short story writer B *Božena Benešová (1873–1936), Czech poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright * Alexandra Berková (1949–2008), novelist, short story writer, some works translated into English * Zdeňka Bezděková (1907–1999), writer, philosopher and translator * Anna Bolavá, (born 1981), novelist, poet *Tereza Boučková (born 1957), short story writer, playwright * Zuzana Brabcová (1959–2015), novelist C * Marie Červinková-Riegrová (1854–1895), biographer, autobiographer, librettist * Zuzana Černínová z Harasova (1600–1654), letter writer D *Radka Denemarková (born 1968), novelist, biographer *Dominika Dery (born 1975), poet, prose write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The Czech Republic has a hilly landscape that covers an area of with a mostly temperate continental and oceanic climate. The capital and largest city is Prague; other major cities and urban areas include Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Liberec. The Duchy of Bohemia was founded in the late 9th century under Great Moravia. It was formally recognized as an Imperial State of the Holy Roman Empire in 1002 and became a kingdom in 1198. Following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the whole Crown of Bohemia was gradually integrated into the Habsburg monarchy. The Protestant Bohemian Revolt led to the Thirty Years' War. After the Battle of White Mountain, the Habsburgs consolidated their rule. With the dissolution of the Holy Empire in 1806, the Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Hauserová
Eva Hauserová (25 November 1954 – 22 December 2023) was a Czech journalist, sci-fi and non-fiction writer and feminist. Biography Hauserová was born in Prague on 25 November 1954. She graduated in Biology from the Charles University in Prague. Hauserová worked for Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Academy of Sciences and later as an assistant editor in several publishing houses. Hauserová was a key figure in the Prague science fiction scene since the early 1980s. Hauserová died on 22 December 2023, at the age of 69. Bibliography (examples) * ''Hostina mutagenů'', Svoboda 1992 * ''Cvokyně'', Ivo Železný 1992 * ''Zrání Madly v sedmi krocích'', ROD Brno 2000 * ''Blues zmražené kočky'', Šťastný 2005 * ''Na koštěti se dá i lítat'', LN, Praha 1995 * ''Jsi přece ženská'', Grada, Praha 1998 References External links Eva Hauserováofficial page Eva Hauserováblog Eva Hauserova and the world of Czech feminist writing Czech Radio, 13 Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Lisická
Helena Lisická (November 26, 1930, Olomouc – November 30, 2009) was a Czech ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ... and writer, author of fairy tales and legends. She started her production in 1950s and wrote more than 20 writings. Outside fairy tales she wrote some plays for children. She collaborated with Folklore group Haná (''Folklórní soubor Haná''), together they founded folklore festival Lidový rok. Her husband was archivist Antonín Roubic. Works * ''Páv zpívá o štěstí'' (1988) * ''Zrcadlo starých časů'' (1985) * ''Medové království'' (1981) * ''Pověsti starých měst'' (1981) * ''O Ječmínkovi'' (1979) * ''Z českých a moravských hradů'' (1977) * ''Devatero řemesel'' (1976) * ''Řeka Morava'' (1975) * ''Pohádky z jalovce'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Věra Linhartová
Věra Linhartová (born 22 March, 1938) is a Czech writer and an art historian. She was born in Brno and studied art history at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University and aesthetics at Charles University in Prague. She worked in the art gallery at Hluboká Castle. From 1962 to 1965, she was involved with the surrealist group in Prague and also contributed to the young writers' journal ''Tvář''. In 1968, Linhartová moved to Paris. Since 1969, she has been writing in French. In 1972, she was the first female juror of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, known then as Books Abroad. She nominated French author Nathalie Sarraute, but the Prize was awarded to Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that year. She studied Japanese in Paris and from 1989 to 1990, she lived in Tokyo on a research grant. She edited and translated ''Dada et Surréalisme au Japon'' (1987). Linhartová received the Jaroslav Seifert Prize The Jaroslav Seifert Prize (Czech: Cena Jaroslava Sei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Květa Legátová
Květa Legátová, born Věra Hofmanová (3 November 1919 – 22 December 2012) was a Czech novelist and writer whose work spanned a period from the 1950s to the 2000s. Her best known work, a 2001 collection of short stories and essays entitled "''Želary''," and her 2002 book, "''Jozova Hanule''," were adapted into the 2003 film, ''Želary''. The film received an 2004 Academy Award nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F .... Born in Podolí, Legátová died on 22 December 2012 at the age of 93. Bibliography *''Korda Dabrová'' (1961) – childbook *''Želary'' (2001) – short stories *''Jozova Hanule'' (2002) – novel *''Návraty do Želar'' (2005) *''Nic není tak prosté'' (2006) References 1919 births 2012 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliška Krásnohorská
Eliška Krásnohorská (18 November 1847, in Prague – 26 November 1926, in Prague) was a Czech people, Czech feminist author. She was introduced to literature and feminism by Karolína Světlá. She wrote works of lyric poetry and literary criticism, however, she is usually associated with children's literature and translations, including works by Pushkin, Adam Mickiewicz, Mickiewicz and Byron. Krásnohorská wrote the libretti for four operas by Bedřich Smetana: ''The Kiss (opera), The Kiss'', ''The Secret (opera), The Secret'', ''The Devil's Wall'' and Viola (opera), ''Viola''. She also wrote the libretto for Zdeněk Fibich's opera ''Blaník (Fibich), Blaník''. In 1873, she founded the women's magazine , which she headed until handing it over to Jindřiška Flajšhansová in 1912. In 1890 Krásnohorská founded the Minerva School in Prague, the first ''Gymnasium (school), gymnasium'' for girls in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its language of instruction was Czech language, Cze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Věra Kohnová
Věra Kohnová (26 June 1929 – 1942) was a Jewish girl who was deported with her family first in January 1942 from Plzeň to a concentration camp in Theresienstadt concentration camp, Theresienstadt and in March 1942 to the Izbica Ghetto in Poland. Věra Kohnová became famous for her diary, which she wrote from August 1941 to January 1942. The diary, in which she watched the last months of life of the Jewish inhabitants of Plzen as a child, she stopped writing a few days before her deportation to Theresienstadt. Věra Kohnová is one of the child victims of the Holocaust. Due to her having the same age and her also writing a diary, she is often compared to Anne Frank. Biography Věra Kohnová's family Věra Kohnová was born on 26 June 1929 in Plzeň, the daughter of Otakar Kohn (1889–1942), an official at the Plzeň iron and metal goods company ''Gustav Teller''. Otakar Kohn came from a family living in Týn nad Vltavou. He came to Plzeň in 1908, and in 1913 his younger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakuba Katalpa
Tereza Jandová (born 1979), known by her pen name Jakuba Katalpa, is a Czech writer, primarily of novels. She is best known for her Czech Book Award-winning novel ''Němci'' (2012), which examines the history of the Sudetenland through a woman's relationship with her grandmother. Biography Jakuba Katalpa was born Tereza Jandová in 1979 in Plzeň, in what was then Czechoslovakia. She studied psychology, media studies, and Czech studies at Charles University in Prague, graduating in 2005. Jandová's first published work was the 2000 short story collection ''Krásné bolesti'' ("Lovely Pain"), followed by the collection ''Povídka beze jména'' ("Story Without a Name") in 2003. She subsequently began writing novels under the pen name Jakuba Katalpa. The first of these, the novella ''Je hlína k snědku?'' ("Can Mud Be Eaten?"), was published in 2006. It was shortlisted for the Magnesia Litera Discovery of the Year Award. She then wrote her first full-length novel, ''Hořké mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Kantůrková
Eva Kantůrková (born 1930) is a Czech author and screenwriter. A communist in her early years, she joined the Czech dissident movement after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and was one of the signatories of Charter 77. In her novels, short stories, historical essays, and diaries, she has chronicled the repression of Czech dissidents and explored themes of political and personal disillusionment. Early life Kantůrková was born in Prague in 1930. Influenced by her communist father, she became involved in the communist youth movement, but the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 caused her to reject the communist agenda. In 1970, she quit the communist party and joined the Czech dissident movement; she was blacklisted as a writer, her completed novels were removed from library shelves, and two screenplays she was developing were put on hiatus. Together with many prominent Czech writers and cultural figures, she signed the Charte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milena Jesenská
Milena Jesenská (; 10 August 1896 – 17 May 1944) was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. Early life Jesenská was born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic). Her family is believed to descend from Jan Jesenius, the first professor of medicine at Prague's Charles University who was among the 27 Bohemian luminaries executed in the Old Town Square in Prague on 21 June 1621 for defying the authority of the Habsburgs King Ferdinand II. However, this belief has been challenged as unfounded. Jesenská's father Jan was a dental surgeon and professor at Charles University in Prague; her mother Milena Hejzlarová died when Milena was 16. Jesenská studied at Minerva, the first academic gymnasium for girls in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After graduation she enrolled briefly at the Prague Conservatory and at the Faculty of Medicine but abandoned her studies after two semesters. In 1918 she married Ernst Pollak, a Jewish intellectual and literary critic who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jožka Jabůrková
Jožka Žofie Jabůrková (April 16, 1896 – July 31, 1942) was a Czech journalist, writer and translator. She became the Prague councillor in 1931 and was a member of the Czechoslovak anti-fascist resistance. Shortly after the establishment of the Protectorate she was arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp where she was eventually tortured to death. Life Jožka Řehová was born on April 16, 1896, in Vítkovice to dressmaker Anežka Řehová, who died soon after. During the First World War she worked in Vítkovice Ironworks and later in the company's hospital. After the war she moved to Prague where she committed herself to the Social Democratic and later the Communist movement. She worked in physical education and held several positions in the Social Democratic Youth and Workers. She studied briefly in Moscow at the local Institute of Physical Training. She used her literary talent in the field of women's work (work in magazines), where she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Hůlová
Petra Hůlová (born 12 July 1979) is a Czech writer. Early life and education Hůlová was born in Prague. She holds a degree in culturology from Charles University in Prague. She lived in Mongolia for one year as an exchange student after having studied the language and culture for several years and having originally had her interest sparked by "a chance encounter with the film '' Urga'' by acclaimed director Nikita Mikhalkov." Career Hůlová rapidly rose to popularity in 2002 with the publication of her début novel ''Paměť mojí babičce'', which became one of the most widely read Czech books of the decade. The novel is told from the point of view of five female narrators from three generations of the same Mongolian family. She chose to set the novel in Mongolia to avoid the necessity of writing about "artificial phenomena" such as career and media, by which she felt Mongolia had been less "polluted" than Europe; this allowed her to focus on writing about the basic feel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
