Born 1981 · Czechia
Magnesia Litera 2023 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Narrator”
Anna Bolavá · 41 when first published
Novel · 358 pages · Speculative, Family
AI-generated summary:Young Vítek Kříž and his brother Jáchym grow up in Běstviny, where legend says a giant worm lives under the compost heap in the castle garden and must be fed with joy, fear, guilt and sometimes something alive.
Magnesia Litera 2018 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“To the Bottom”
Anna Bolavá · 36 when first published
Novel · 284 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:With the first frosts at the end of November, the body of the doctor Marek Diviš's wife is found in the marshes at the edge of a small town, and speculation and gossip begin to spin.
Magnesia Litera 2016 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Into the Dark”
Anna Bolavá · 34 when first published
Novel · 227 pages · Nature
AI-generated summary:Anna, a lonely, ailing eccentric in a country town, has given most of her life to gathering, drying and selling medicinal herbs, and in June she sets off on her old bicycle to collect.