Zdena Salivarová
Zdena Salivarová (born October 21, 1933)[1] is a Czech-born writer and translator living in Toronto, Canada. She founded a publishing house which published Czech works that had been banned in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
Biography
[edit]Salivarová was born in Prague and studied script-writing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. During the 1960s, Salivarová worked as a singer and actress. In 1968, she published a collection of short stories Pánská jízda.[2]
Following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, Salivarová emigrated with her husband Josef Škvorecký,[3][4][5] firstly to the United States and then to Canada.[3] They settled in Toronto in 1969.[6]
Salivarová founded a Czech émigré publishing house in Toronto, 68 Publishers,[6][3] which published Czech books that were banned in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for over 20 years.[7] This included works by Václav Havel, Milan Kundera, and Ludvík Vaculík and others.[8] Salivarová and her husband wrote Samožerbuch (1977) about the history of the publishing house.[2]
Salivarová received the Egon Hostovský Award in 1976. With her husband, she was named to the Order of the White Lion in 1990 for their work in promoting Czech literature.[2]
- Honzlová (Summer in Prague), novel (1972)
- Nebe, peklo, ráj (Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down), novel (1976)
Filmography
[edit]- 1969 End of a Priest - Anna
- 1967 Mučedníci lásky
- 1966 A Report on the Party and the Guests
References
[edit]- ^ "Zdena Salivarová". Slovník české literatury po roce 1945 (in Czech).
- ^ a b c "Zdena Salivarová". Prague Writers' Festival.
- ^ a b c Sayer, Derek (2022-11-22). Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History. Princeton University Press. p. 512. ISBN 978-0-691-18545-3.
- ^ Boyagoda, Randy. "The World According to Škvorecký". The Walrus (October/November, 2008).
- ^ Goodman, Brian K. (2023-06-20). The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain. Harvard University Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-674-29294-9.
- ^ a b c "Zdena Salivarová". Czech literature portal. Archived from the original on 2014-08-28. Retrieved 2015-01-26.
- ^ Hames, Peter (2010-08-09). Czech and Slovak Cinema. Edinburgh University Press. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-7486-8683-4.
- ^ Rechcigl Jr, Miloslav (2013-09-13). Czech American Timeline: Chronology of Milestones in the History of Czechs in America. p. 348. ISBN 978-1-4817-5706-5.
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