Lucie Lukačovičová (born 1980 in
Prague
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,
Czech Republic
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) is a Czech fantasy and
science fiction
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writer
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. She studied
cultural anthropology
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and librarianship at
Charles University
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, undergr ...
. She teaches
creative writing and works as a free-time
pedagogue
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, organizing activities for children and young adults.
She was the editor of six anthologies of young authors (starting with ''Stíny věcí – Shadows of Things'' in 2005) and translator from English (
L.K. Hamilton:
Guilty Pleasures,
The Laughing Corpse,
Circus of the Damned
''Circus of the Damned'' is a horror/mystery novel by American writer Laurell K. Hamilton, the third book in her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series.
Within the novel, the "Circus of the Damned" is the name of a supernatural circus that operate ...
).
She received the ''Award of Karel Čapek'' twice, in 2001 and 2007.
She received the 2007 Encouragement Award 2007 from the European Science Fiction Society.
She published nearly one hundred short stories and many articles, three novels in collaboration with other authors (''Město přízraků'' – ''The City of Wraiths''; ''Tajná kniha Šerosvitu'' – ''The Secret Book of Chiaroscuro''; ''Cesta Rudé tanečnice'' – ''The Voyage of the Red Dancer''), and three novels (''Toki no shujin: Vládci času'' – ''Toki no shujin: Masters of Time''; ''Stanice Armida'' – ''Station Armida''; ''Detektivní kancelář Sirius'' – ''Private Eye Agency Sirius'').
She frequently co-writes with her sister, Petra Lukačovičová.
References
External links
interview with Lucie Lukačovičová for server fantasya.cz (in Czech)profile on server Legie (in Czech)author's profile, online bookshop Daemon (in Czech)author's profile, publishing company 'Straky na vrbě' (in Czech)A short-story CatNIP published in 2015 in Romanian in the magazine Fantastica.Interview at Europa SF - The European Speculative Fiction portal
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Czech science fiction writers
1980 births
Living people
Charles University alumni