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Sylvie Richterová

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Sylvie Richterová in 2016

Sylvie Richterová (born 20 August 1945) is a Czech educator and writer living in Italy.[1]

She was born in Brno and was educated as an interpreter at Charles University in Prague. In 1971, she moved to Italy, where she lectured in Czech and was a researcher at the Institute of Slavonic Philology. She went on to lecture on Czech language and literature in Padua and Viterbo.[1]

Her first book Návraty a jiné ztráty (Returns and other losses), a collection of short stories, was written in Italy and was published by 68 Publishers[2] in 1978. It was published in French as Retours et autres pertes in 1992.[1]

Richterová has also translated works by Czech writers into Italian.[3]

Awards

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Selected works[1][3]

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  • Místopis (Topography), short stories (1981)
  • Slova a ticho (Words and silence), essays (1986)
  • Ticho a smích (Silence and laughter), essays (1997)
  • Čas věčnost [Time Eternity], poems (2003)
  • Místo domova [In Place of Home], essays (2004)
  • "Každá věc ať dospěje na své místo" (– The Second Life of Jan Lazar),novel (2014)
  • "Eseje o české literatuře" (Essays on Czech literature,) 2016
  • "Tajné ohně" (Secret fires) poems (2020)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Sylvie Richterová". Czech literature portal.
  2. ^ "Sylvie Richterova : Je verrai toujours le monde comme l'espace où l'on peut se mouvoir". Radio Prague. March 3, 2007.(in French)
  3. ^ a b Segel, Harold B (2003). The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945. Columbia University Press. p. 466. ISBN 0231114044.
  4. ^ Prague Daily Monitor: Richterova will receive Tom Stoppard Prize for her Essays on Czech Literature, a collection of her texts from the past 40 years


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