Květa Legátová

Kveta Legátová (actually Věra Hofmanová; born November 3, 1919 in Podolí; † 22 December 2012) was a Czech writer.

Life

Kveta Legátová, daughter of a village teacher, studied Czech, German, physics and mathematics at the Masaryk University in Brno, after which she worked as a teacher. As a student she wrote sketches for the radio in Brno. As a young teacher, she was in the late 1940s to Nový Hrozenkov sent to the border between Moravia and Slovakia as a kind of disciplinary transfer. The self-confident woman who never joined the party, was the communist regime as politically unreliable. Your pseudonym under which she published, she was looking under the names of their girlfriends. She debuted in 1957 under the pseudonym Věra Podhorná with the book figurines. She was also among the authors of the first vintages of Host do domu ( "Guest in the House " ) and " Brno radio drama school". Then came a pause of more than twenty years. "I could not write anything, the political pressure was too great. "

In 2002 she received for Zelary (published in 2001) the " Czech National Prize for Literature".

Works

  • Postavičky, 1957
  • Korda Dabrova - Il. Frantisek Miroslav Doubrava, Brno 1961, YA
  • Zelary, 2001
  • Jozova Hanule, 2002
  • Pro každého nebe, 2003
  • Posedlá a Jiné hry, Paseka 2004
  • Návraty do Zelar ( s rozhovor D. Kaprálovou ), 2005
  • Nic tak není Proste, 2006
  • Muzzle a Jiné odposlechy, 2007
  • Mimo tento čas, 2008

Works on German

  • The people of Zelary, novella ( Original title: Zelary, translated by Sophia Marzolff ). dtv, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-21275-5.
  • The man from Zelary, novella ( Original title: Jozova Hanule, translated by Sophia Marzolff ), dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-423-21275-5 / ISBN 978-3-423-25301-7 (Large Print), as an audio book: The man from Zelary, unabridged reading by Eva Mattes, audiobook Hamburg, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89903-244-4.

Filming

Ondřej Trojan filmed 2003, the story Jozova Hanule the film " Zelary " and received an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film in 2004, performers were among others: Zita Kabátová, Edita Malovcic, Iva Bittová, Svatopluk Beneš and György Cserhalmi. The lead actress Anna Geislerová was awarded the 2004 Undine Award for Best Young Actress from the new EU countries.

Award

  • 2002: National Prize for Literature.
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