Radka Denemarková: Hours and history

– Czechia

A novelist, translator, screenwriter and dramaturgist, the author of monographs on Evald Schorm (Sám sobě nepřítelem/An Enemy to Himself, 1998) and Petr Lébl (Smrt nebudeš se báti/Death, Thou Shall not Be Afraid, 2008). She was born in Kutná Hora in 1968 and studied German and Czech languages at Charles University. She later worked at the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences and as a dramaturgist in Divadlo Na zábradlí. She went freelance in 2004 and authored a number of internationally acclaimed and translated novels such as A já pořád kdo to tluče (The Devil by the Nose, 2005), Peníze od Hitlera (Money from Hitler, 2006), Kobold (2011), Příspěvek k dějinám radosti (A Contribution to the History of Joy, 2014) and Hodiny z olova (Hours of Lead, 2018).