Kateřina Tučková (b. 1980) is a novelist, playwright, journalist and art historian. Her books have sold over 450,000 copies in the Czech Republic alone. She has won several literary awards, including the Magnesia Litera and the 2022 Czech State Award for Literature. In 2017, she received the Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights Award from the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. She has also been awarded the Premio Libro d'Europa at the book fair in Salerno, Italy. Tučková’s books have been published in 25 languages. Her debut novel Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch [Gerta] was adapted for the screen in 2026.
Works translated into: Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Ukrainian.
– novel, trans. Iris Milde, Klak Verlag, 2019
– czech orig. Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch, Host, 2009
– novel, trans. Eva Profousová, DVA, 2015
– czech orig. Žítkovské bohyně, Host, 2012
– novel, trans. Eurydice Antolin, Éditions Charleston, 2024
– czech orig. Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch, Host, 2009
– novel, trans. Eurydice Antolin, Éditions Charleston, 2023
– czech orig. Žítkovské bohyně, Host, 2012
– novel, trans. Kepa Uharte, Editorial Periférica, 2021
– czech orig. Žítkovské bohyně, Host, 2012
– novel, trans. Véronique Firkusny, Amazon Crossing, 2021
– czech orig. Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch, Host, 2009
– novel, trans. Andrew Oakland, Amazon Crossing, 2012
– czech orig. Žítkovské bohyně, Host, 2012
Czech State Award for Literature (2022)
Premio Salerno Libro d'Europa (2018)
Magnesia Litera, Kosmas Readers’ Award (2013)
Česká kniha [Czech Book] Readers’ Award (2013)
Literární Cena Josefa Škvoreckého [Josef Škvorecký Award] (2012)
