Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz

Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz (born Markéta Götzová; 15 February 1927 – 6 November 2022) was a Canadian scholar and translator, best-known for her work on Czech literature. Born to a German Bohemian mother and a Czech-Jewish father, she won the 1988 Ordo Scriptores Bohemici prize, 2000 Medal of Merit, and 2016 George Theiner Prize.

Radio Prague International described her as

Life Markéta Götzová was born in Liberec. From 1935 to 1948, she lived in Místek where she studied at a German School. Her father was Jewish and survived Theresienstadt.

In 1965, she married Polish-born political scientist Władysław Stankiewicz. From 1973 to 1989, she travelled annually to Prague, and met many Czech writers, promoting their work in the west. Good-Bye Samizdat: Twenty Years of Czechoslovak Underground Writing, Northwestern University Press, 1992.