Věra Linhartová
Věra Linhartová (born March 22, 1938) is a Czech writer and art historian.[1]
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. She studied Japanese in Paris and from 1989 to 1990, she lived in Tokyo on a research grant.[2]
She edited and translated Dada et Surréalisme au Japon (1987).[2]
Linhartová received the Jaroslav Seifert Prize in 1998.[3] In 2010, she received the F. X. Šalda Award[4] and the Tom Stoppard prize for her collection of essays Soustředné kruhy (Collected Circles).[3]
Selected works[2]
- Meziprůzkum nejblíž uplynulého (Intersurvey of the nearest past), short stories (1964)
- Prostor k rozlišení (Space for differentiation), short stories (1964)
- Rozprava o zdviži (Discourse about a lift), prose (1965)
- Přestořeč (Despitespeech), short stories (1966)
- Chiméra neboli Průřez cibulí, prose (1967)
- Ianus tří tváří (Three-faced Janus), poetry (1993)[5]
- Mes oubliettes (My dungeons) (1998)[6]
- Soustředné kruhy, essays (2011)[5]
References
- ↑ "Věra Linhartová". Czech literature portal.
- 1 2 3 Holy, Jiri (2010). Writers Under Siege: Czech Literature Since 1945. p. 256. ISBN 1845194403.
- 1 2 "Cenu Toma Stopparda získala Linhartová za knihu, která vznikala 40 let". Hospodářské Noviny (in Czech). May 26, 2011.
- ↑ "Věra Linhartová receives the 2010 F. X. Šalda prize". Czech literature portal.
- 1 2 "Bibliography - Věra Linhartová". Czech literature portal.
- ↑ Cornis-Pope, Marcel; Neubauer, John (2010). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume 4. p. 663. ISBN 9027287864.