Sylvie Richterová

Sylvie Richterová (born 20 August 1945) is a Czech educator and writer living in Italy.

Her first book Návraty a jiné ztráty (Returns and other losses), a collection of short stories, was written in Italy and was published by 68 Publishers in 1978. It was published in French as Retours et autres pertes in 1992.

Awards 2017 Tom Stoppard Prize

Selected works Source: Místopis (Topography), short stories (1981) Slova a ticho (Words and silence), essays (1986) Ticho a smích (Silence and laughter), essays (1997) Čas věčnost [Time Eternity], poems (2003) Místo domova [In Place of Home], essays (2004) "Každá věc ať dospěje na své místo" (– The Second Life of Jan Lazar), novel (2014) "Eseje o české literatuře" (Essays on Czech literature,) 2016 "Tajné ohně" (Secret fires) poems (2020)