MARKÉTA PILÁTOVÁ

Date:

October 25, 2022 at 6 pm

Location:

121 Saint Joseph Street Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, 4th floor, room 404 Toronto, ON M5S 3C2

The writer, journalist, author of children's books, translator was twice nominated for the Josef Škvorecký Prize and the Magnesia Litera, her books were published in German, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Italian or Spanish translation.

She lived for twelve years in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in São Paulo and in Buenos Aires, where she taught the descendants of Czech compatriots who emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Brazil and Argentina. He publishes essays, foreign policy articles, reports, reviews, short stories and author columns in many Czech media (eg Respekt, Lidové noviny, cultural supplement Práva Salon). She also writes short stories for the Vltava radio station and song lyrics for the singer Monika Načeva. She is married, lives in Prague and in Velké Losiny.

Her first two books for adults influenced by Latin America, Yellow Eyes Lead Home (2007) and My Favorite Book (2009) were nominated for the Magnesia Litera Award. She was nominated for the Josef Škvorecký Prize for her first novel and for the novel Hero from Madrid (2015). The 2017 novel With Bata in the Jungle offers us a story of businessman J.A. Bata. In 2020, the last novel for adults was published called Senzibil, which takes place in the mysterious Jeseníky Mountains. Markéta Pilátová is also a very successful author of books for children.

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BIANCA BELLOVÁ  

Date:

October 31, 2022 at 6 pm

Location:

121 Saint Joseph Street Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, 4th floor, room 404 Toronto, ON M5S 3C2

 

was born in Prague, graduated from the University of Economics. She has Bulgarian background. She works as translator and interpreter. Her first novel, Sentimental Novel, was published in 2009. The books The Dead Man (2011) and All Day Nothing Happens (2013) followed. She won the Magnesia Litera Book of the Year Award and the European Union Prize for Literature for her novel The lake (2016); the rights to its release were sold to twenty-three countries, including South Korea, Japan and Egypt. The author's fifth novel Mona was published in 2019 and a year later won the Czech Book Award. In 2021, she published the short stories Tyhle fragmenty. In the spring 2022, her last novel, The Island , was published by her home publishing house, Host. She has three children with her British husband, musician Thomas Bell.

Her North American tour, supported by the Czech Literary Center, is aimed to promote recently published English version of the award-winning book The Lake, translated from Czech by renowned translator Alex Zucker. This novel is set in the surroundings of an ominously drying lake in an undefined post-Soviet space, tells the archetypal story of a teenage boy struggling in a devastated world marked by occupation and ecological disaster. Critic Alena Slezáková called The Lake "one of the most remarkable books of recent years".

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