Jakuba Katalpa

Tereza Jandová (born 1979), known by her pen name Jakuba Katalpa, is a Czech writer, primarily of novels. She is best known for her Czech Book Award-winning novel Němci, which examines the history of the Sudetenland through a woman's relationship with her grandmother.

Biography Jakuba Katalpa was born Tereza Jandová in 1979 in Plzeň, in what was then Czechoslovakia. She studied psychology, media studies, and Czech studies at Charles University in Prague, graduating in 2005.

In 2012, Katalpa published Němci ("Germans"), which would become her most popular work. It tells the story of a Czech woman living in London who travels to search for her estranged German grandmother. in 2020 Katalpa published the novel Zuzanin dech ("Zuzana's Breath"), which also deals with the tensions of life in the Sudetenland. It tells the story of the daughter of a Jewish sugar factory owner during the Holocaust.

Selected works

Short stories

Krásné bolesti (2000) Povídka beze jména (2003)

Novella

Je hlína k snědku? (2003)

Novels

Hořké moře (2008) Němci (2012) Doupě (2017) Zuzanin dech (2020) Úlice: Liebesroman (2025)