Magdaléna Platzová

Magdaléna Platzová (born 8 March 1972) is a Czech writer.

Biography The daughter of , a journalist, and Josef Platz, a director of documentaries, she was born in Prague. She was educated in Washington, D.C., and England; Platzová received a MA in philosophy from Charles University. During her twenties, she was a member of a Franco-Czech theater group. In the late 1990s, she was assistant to Petr Lébl at the Theatre on the Balustrade. From 2009 to 2012, she lived in New York City; she taught a course on Franz Kafka at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is an editor and contributor on cultural topics to Czech newspapers Respekt and Literární noviny. Since 2012, Platzová has lived in Lyon, France.

Selected work Source: Recyklovaný muž ("The Recycled Man"), short stories (2008) Toník a jeskyně snů ("Tonik and the Cave of Dreams"), children's book (2010) Anarchista ("The Attempt"), novel (2013), translated into English as The Attempt (2016) Druhá strana ticha ("The Other Side of Silence") (2018) Máme holý ruce ("Our Hands are Bare"),(2019), book for young adults on the Velvet Revolution Život po Kafkovi ("Life after Kafka") (2022), novel about Felice Bauer. Fáze jedné ženy (One Woman Phase) (2025), short stories