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

Selected works[1][3]

  • 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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