Horáčková Alice

Alice Horáčková (b. 1980) grew up in Prague and the Giant Mountains (Krkonoše). She graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University. She has conducted literary interviews and written reviews for the daily newspaper Mladá Fronta Dnes. In 2008, she received a one-year scholarship from the Europäische Journalisten-Fellowships in Berlin. She has published five books, including award-winning biographies of the juvenile detainee poet Vladimíra Čerepková (2014) and the dissident Benda family [Václav and Kamila Benda. Partners in Life and in Dissent] (2025). The Benda biography was named Book of the Year in the nonfiction category by the daily Deník N, based on a poll of a panel of experts. Her novel Rozpůlený dům [A House Divided] (2022), inspired by the story of the author’s family in the Sudetenland, has been a great success with readers and will this year be published in a German translation by Diogenes. She is a winner of the German Mörike-Förderpreis scholarship award (2024).

Works translated into: German.