Zdena Salivarová

Zdena Salivarová (October 21, 1933 – August 25, 2025) was a Czech-born writer and translator who lived in Toronto, Canada. She founded a publishing house which published Czech works that had been banned in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

Early life Salivarová was born in Prague on October 21, 1933. Her father was a book-seller and publisher who was arrested by the Czech government. He and her brother both were given jail sentences. firstly to the United States and then to Canada.

Salivarová founded a Czech émigré publishing house in Toronto, 68 Publishers, This included works by Václav Havel, Milan Kundera, and Ludvík Vaculík and others. Salivarová and her husband wrote Samožerbuch (1977) about the history of the publishing house.

Salivarová died on August 25, 2025, in Toronto, at the age of 91.

Selected works (in Czech) Translation: (in Czech) Translation:

Filmography 1969: End of a Priest – Anna 1967: Mučedníci lásky 1966: A Report on the Party and the Guests