Lit in Translation

Daniela Hodrová

Born 1946 · Czechia

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Magnesia Litera 2016 · Shortlist

    Točité věty

    Title translated by AI:“Winding Sentences”

    Daniela Hodrová · 69 when first published

    Novel · 375 pages · Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:An autobiographical narrator calls up her friendships with the writer Bohumila Grögerová and the artist Adriena Šimotová, weaving memory, the last things of life and the making of a text into one spiralling story.

  • No English yet

    Magnesia Litera 2004 · Shortlist

    Komedie

    Title translated by AI:“Comedy”

    Daniela Hodrová · 57 when first published

    Novel · 212 pages · Autofiction, Historical

    AI-generated summary:A writer tells her own life and those of her family, weaving them into the stories of many others, living and dead, who meet in Prague's Olšany cemeteries.