Lit in Translation

Magdaléna Platzová

Born 1972 · Czechia

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Magnesia Litera 2026 · Shortlist

    Fáze jedné ženy

    Title translated by AI:“Phases of One Woman”

    Magdaléna Platzová · 53 when first published

    Short stories · 166 pages

    AI-generated summary:Nineteen stories trace stages in women's lives, setting out from a village funeral, a literary trip to Britain, a study rented from a French countess, Christmas on an island and a Christmas party in Lyon.

  • In English

    Magnesia Litera 2023 · Shortlist

    Life After Kafka

    Život po Kafkovi

    Magdaléna Platzová · 50 when first published

    Novel · 256 pages · Historical, Migration

    AI-generated summary:A novelist sets out in 2010 to find traces in America of Felice Bauer, Kafka's former fiancée, who married, had two children, emigrated and kept the letters of the man who left her for forty years.