Iva Pekárková

Iva Pekárková (born 15 February 1963) is a Czech writer. She started writing and publishing novels when she lived in New York City in 1986–1996. Her novels are inspired by her various life experiences and she writes openly about sexuality, making her controversial in her native country. Most of her novels are originally written in Czech.

In 1985, she defected to Austria and immigrated to the United States after spending a year in a refugee camp. In the US she held a number of occupations in New York City, including working as social worker in the Bronx and driving a limousine and a Yellow Cab. Pekárková returned to the Czech Republic in 1996. Visits to India and Nigeria inspired To India Where Else (2001) and Naidja: Stats in My Heart (2004). She published Six Billion Americas in 2005.

Novels Pera a perutě, 1989 (translated into English by David Powelstock as Truck Stop Rainbows, 1992) Kulatý svět, (translated into English by David Powelstock as The World Is Round), 1994 Dej mi ty prachy, 1996 (translated into English by the author as Gimme the Money, 2000)