Eva Kantůrková
06. October 2008 10:41
Eva Kanturkova was born in Prague in 1930, daughter to a communist journalist and writer. She began her writing career with the newspaper Mlada fronta (Young Front) and received a degree in philosophy and history from Charles University in 1956.
Her first novel, Smutečni slavnost (Funeral Cermony) was published in 1967, and her next two novels, Po potope (After the Flood) in 1969 and Pozustalost pana Abela (Mr. Abel’s Legacy) in 1971, were banned in the Czech Republic.
She was arrested in 1981 for her dissident writing, and while imprisoned she wrote a documentary novel titled My Companions in the Bleak House (1984), which received the Top Stoppard Prize. Kanturkova helped found the Civic Forum in 1989, was elected to parliament in 1990, and chaired the Writers’ Council from 1994 to 1996.
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