Alena Mornštajnová (born 24 June 1963 in

Valašské Meziříčí Valašské Meziříčí (; ) is a town in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monum ...

) is a

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writer and translator.

Life and career

She attended

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, where she studied English and Czech. She has published a series of acclaimed novels, starting with her debut novel ''Slepá mapa'' (''Blind Map'', 2013) which was nominated for the 2014 Czech Book Prize. Subsequent works include ''Hotýlek'' (''The Little Hotel'', 2015), ''Hana'' (2017), and ''Tiché roky'' (''Years of Silence'', 2019). ''Hana'' is her most successful work to date and has been translated into English and several other languages. It was nominated for the 2021

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. She has also written a book for children, ''Strašidýlko stráša'' (''Stráša the Little Ghost''). Mornštajnová lives in

Novels

* ''Hana'', Translated from the Czech by Julia and Peter Sherwood,

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2020. . * *

References

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