Zdena Salivarová (born October 21, 1933) is a

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-born writer and translator living in

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. She was born in

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and studied script-writing at the

Academy of Performing Arts in Prague The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (, AMU) is a university in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic, specialising in the study of music, dance, drama, film, television and multi-media. It is the largest art school in the Czech Republic, wit ...

. She came to

Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...

in the year 1969 with her husband

Josef Škvorecký Josef Škvorecký (; September 27, 1924 – January 3, 2012) was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher. He spent half of his life in Canada, publishing and supporting banned Czech literature during the communist era. Škvorecký was awarded the ...

following the

Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia On 20–21 August 1968, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four fellow Warsaw Pact countries: the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, and the Hungarian People's Republic. The in ...

. During the 1960s, she worked as a singer and actress. In 1968, she published a collection of short stories ''Pánská jízda''. With her husband, she founded a publishing house in Toronto,

68 Publishers 68 Publishers, also called Sixty-Eight Publishers, Sixtyeight Publishers, or even Nakladatelství 68 ('nakladatelství' is Czech for 'publishing house'), was a publishing house formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1971 by Czech expatriate Jose ...

, which published Czech books that were banned in

communist Czechoslovakia The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, (Czech and Slovak: ''Československá socialistická republika'', ČSSR) known from 1948 to 1960 as the Czechoslovak Republic (''Československá republika)'', Fourth Czechoslovak Republic, or simply Czech ...

. Salivarová and her husband wrote ''Samožerbuch'' (1977) about the history of the publishing house. She received the Egon Hostovský award in 1976. With her husband, she was named to the

Order of the White Lion The Order of the White Lion () is the highest order of the Czech Republic. It continues a Czechoslovak order of the same name created in 1922 as an award for foreigners (Czechoslovakia having no civilian decoration for its citizens in the 192 ...

in 1990 for their work in promoting Czech literature.

Selected works

* ''Honzlová'' (Summer in Prague), novel (1972) * ''Nebe, peklo, ráj'' (Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down), novel (1976)

Filmography

* 1969

End of a Priest ''End of a Priest'' () is a 1969 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Evald Schorm. It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Vlastimil Brodský as Verger Albert * Jan Libíček as Teacher * Zdena Škvorecká as Anna * Jana B ...

- Anna * 1967 Mučedníci lásky * 1966 A Report on the Party and the Guests

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