Věra Linhartová

Věra Linhartová
Born(1938-03-22)22 March 1938
Brno, Czechoslovakia
Died26 June 2026(2026-06-26) (aged 88)
Paris, France
Alma materMasaryk University, Charles University
OccupationsJournalist, writer
Writing career
Notable awardsNeustadt International Prize for Literature

Věra Linhartová (22 March 1938 – 26 June 2026) was a Czech writer and art historian.

Life and career

Linhartová was born in Brno on 22 March 1938. She studied art history at Masaryk University in Brno and aesthetics at Charles University in Prague. Linhartová worked in the art gallery at Hluboká Castle. From 1962 to 1965, she was involved with the surrealist group in Prague and also contributed to the young writers' journal Tvář. In 1968, Linhartová moved to Paris. From 1969, she wrote in French.

In 1972, she was the first female juror of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature,[1] known then as Books Abroad. She nominated French author Nathalie Sarraute, but the Prize was awarded to Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that year.[2]

She studied Japanese language in Paris and from 1989 to 1990, she lived in Tokyo on a research grant.[3]

Linhartová edited and translated Dada et Surréalisme au Japon (1987).[3]

She received the Jaroslav Seifert Prize in 1998.[4] In 2010, she received the F. X. Šalda Award[5] and the Tom Stoppard prize for her collection of essays Soustředné kruhy (Collected Circles).[4]

Linhartová died in Paris on 26 June 2026, at the age of 88.[6]

Selected works

Source:[3]

  • Meziprůzkum nejblíž uplynulého (Intersurvey of the nearest past), short stories (1964)
  • Prostor k rozlišení (Space for differentiation), short stories (1964)
  • Rozprava o zdviži (Discourse about a lift), prose (1965)
  • Přestořeč (Despite speech), short stories (1966)
  • Chiméra neboli Průřez cibulí, prose (1967)
  • Dada et Surréalisme au Japon (Modern Art in Japan) (1987)[3]
  • Ianus tří tváří (Three-faced Janus), poetry (1993)[7]
  • Mes oubliettes (My dungeons) (1998)[8]
  • Soustředné kruhy, essays (2011)[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Neustadt Jurors (1970 – present)". Neustadt Prizes. 2017-07-07. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  2. ↑ "1972 – Gabriel García Márquez". Neustadt Prizes. 2013-06-10. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Holý, Jiří (2010). Writers Under Siege: Czech Literature Since 1945. p. 256. ISBN 978-1845194406.
  4. 1 2 "Cenu Toma Stopparda získala Linhartová za knihu, která vznikala 40 let". Hospodářské noviny (in Czech). 26 May 2011.
  5. ↑ "Věra Linhartová receives the 2010 F. X. Šalda prize". Czech literature portal. Retrieved 2015-01-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  6. ↑ Hloušková, Lenka (27 June 2026). "Zemřela spisovatelka Věra Linhartová". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 27 June 2026.
  7. 1 2 "Bibliography - Věra Linhartová". Czech literature portal.
  8. ↑ Cornis-Pope, Marcel; Neubauer, John (2010). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Vol. 4. p. 663. ISBN 978-9027287861.
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