Kateřina Tučková

In 2018, she was awarded the prize Premio Salerno Libro d'Europa in Italy for her literature work.

In 2017, Katerina Tučková was awarded the Prize for Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights for an extraordinary contribution to the reflection of modern history by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.

In 2015, Kateřina Tučková participated in the organization of the Year of Reconciliation, during which the city of Brno, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, for the first time officially apologized for the inhumane expulsion of German speaking population from Brno. During this expulsion in 1945 many women, children and old people died. This initiative, which was inspired besides other things, by her novel The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch (Host, Brno 2009), also praised the German President Joachim Gauck in his speech on the Day of deportees. From 2015 to 2018, she was the program director of the multi-genre festival Meeting Brno, which focuses on the confrontation of current and historical Central European topics and their artistic conception.

Tučková was born in Brno and spent her childhood in the South Moravian village of Moutnice. She moved with her mother to Kuřim when she was a teenager. Tučková studied at Gymnázium Kapitána Jaroše (Captain Jaroš’s Gymnasium) and got an academic degree in the field of history of art, Czech language, and Czech literature at The Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. In 2004, she founded The ARSkontakt project, an annual exposition of artworks of her generation. As a curator, Tučková worked in Brno in a non-commercial gallery focused on young art; In 2014 she graduated from The Institute of Art History at Charles University in Prague. Since 2010 she has worked as a curator in Exhibition hall Chrudim.

Kateřina Tučková (born 31 October 1980) is a Czech novelist and curator. She is best known as the author of Žítkovské bohyně, a Czech bestseller translated into 16 languages.