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The book of pearl
Timothée de Fombelle
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Grauová

Šárka Grauová

Praha, 1965
Translator

Born in 1965, Šárka Grauová is a Czech university lecturer, specialist in Portuguese studies (Romanist), and a translator from Portuguese. She teaches at the Institute of Romance Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Her scholarly interest is primarily in Portuguese literature. She completed her studies in English and Portuguese at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, in 1988. Grauová translates works from English and Portuguese, including those by G. Steiner, Machado de Assis, M. de Andrade, V. Ferreira, Ch. Buarque, and Lima Barreto. In collaboration with the publishing houses Torst and Triáda, she manages the Luso-Brazilian Library series, which publishes works by Portuguese and Brazilian authors.

Marketa Pilatova

Markéta Pilátová

Kroměříž, 1973
Translator
Writer

Markéta Pilátová is a Czech writer, Hispanist, and journalist. She graduated in Romance Studies and History from the Faculty of Arts at Palacký University in Olomouc. After her studies, she worked there for six years as a research assistant. From 2007 to 2008, she was the head of the foreign editorial office at the weekly magazine Respekt. She then traveled to Argentina and Brazil, spending five years in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires. There, she taught descendants of Czech expatriates who had emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Brazil and Argentina. Her essays, foreign policy articles, reports, reviews, short stories, and author columns are published in various Czech media outlets (such as Respekt, Lidové noviny, and the cultural supplement of Právo Salon). She also writes short stories for the radio station Vltava and song lyrics for singer Monika Načeva. Currently, she works in the cultural department of the Cervantes Institute. She is married and lives in Prague and Velké Losiny.

Anežka Charvátová

Anežka Charvátová

1965
Translator

Anežka Charvátová, born in 1965, graduated from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, where she majored in Spanish and French and earned her doctorate in philosophy in 1989. She furthered her language education by studying Italian at a language school. Charvátová's professional journey includes roles in two publishing houses and co-founding a third. As a freelancer, she is deeply engaged in translating and interpreting, book promotion, and the dissemination of Romance literature. She contributes reviews and teaches Spanish literature at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Her expertise extends beyond translations from Spanish, French, and Italian to include cultural analysis, a field intertwined with language. Charvátová's translation work has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards.

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Hana Zahradníčková

1972, Praha
Translator
Editor

Hana Zahradníčková graduated in Romance Studies from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University. She has worked as an editor for the weekly magazine Respekt, ERM publishing, and Lidové noviny newspaper. She has translated works by Nicolas Bouvier, Henri Michaux, Alphonse Allais, and a number of comics including Ibicus by Pascal Rabaté, Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story by Frederic Peeters, Pascin by Joan Sfar, Marzi: A Memoir by Sylvain Savoia and Marzena Sowa, Back to Basics (Jean Ferri a Manu Larcenet), Super Monsieur Fruit (Nicolas de Crécy), and others. For Baobab publishing, she translated two comics by David B., The Armed Garden and Other Stories, and The Littlest Pirate, as well as the children's detective story Jefferson by Jean-Claude Mourlevat.


 

 

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