Tereza Boučková
Internationally known best-selling Czech author
Strong, recognizable literary voice
Modern European history
https://praglit.de/authors/tereza-bouckova/
A native in Prague where she was born in 1957. After grade school she first attended a two-year business school from which she transferred to a classical grammar school.
She then wanted to continue her studies at the Drama Academy but was turned down because of political reasons. A the same time she became a signatory of the Charter 77. As a consequence, she was allowed to work only in various menial jobs prior to 1989. She lives with her husband halfly at Záhrabská, a weekend house in Svatý Jan pod Skalou, and halfly in Prague. In 1988 - 89 they adopted two Roma boys, the third son was born in 1991.
In 2016 was Tereza Boučková honored for her involvement in resistance to comunism.
literary agent: Maria Sileny, maria@sileny.de
New work:
Dům v Matoušově ulici
The House in Matoušova street
(novel)
In 1927, Eduard Schwarz, a widower, a Jewish lawyer, bought a house in Matoušova Street in Smíchov in order to acquire a decent residence for himself and his family. He was lucky to die before the Second World War began.
In her novel, Tereza Boučková, who lived in the house from birth to adulthood and returned there again a few years ago, gives us the story of Schwarz‘s descendants, as well as other inhabitants of the house, woven into the history of the twentieth century, spanning almost a hundred years. The author traces their fates literally on the spot, and it is so intense that the reader does not want to put the book down until he or she has finished it. With emotion, irony, and sadness, she writes about people whom both monstrous ideologies, Nazism and Communism, wanted to humiliate, rob, imprison, or murder.