{"id":188,"date":"2024-07-09T23:13:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T21:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluh2.wordpress.com\/?page_id=188"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:17:20","slug":"marketa-pilatova","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/authors\/marketa-pilatova\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark\u00e9ta Pil\u00e1tov\u00e1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cThe language of Mark\u00e9ta Pil\u00e1tov\u00e1 is enthralling by its homogeneous briefness and sharpness\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Mlad\u00e1 fronta Dnes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>

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Mark\u00e9ta Pil\u00e1tov\u00e1 (1973) graduated in Romance Studies and History at the Faculty of Arts of Palack\u00fd University in Olomouc, where she was an assistant professor for six years. For two years she worked as a lecturer of Czech at the Department of Slavonic Studies in Granada, Spain, and then went for 12 years to Argentina and Brazil, where she taught Czech to the offspring of Czech compatriots and worked as a journalist for various Czech magazines en newspapers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her stay in Latin America, she started writing and immediately broke through as a writer with her first novel \u017dlut\u00e9 o\u010di vedou dom\u016f<\/em> (Yellow Eyes Will Lead You Home). Here she combined and confronted elements of European and Latin American culture. This would become her trademark for several books that followed, adding an extra dimension to her work .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She always does thorough research before writing, and for the novel S Ba\u0165ou v d\u017eungli<\/em> (With Bata in the Jungle), for instance, she was able to draw on personal archives of descendants, which inspired her writing. She shows similar meticulousness in her children’s books about famous people such as the Bata brothers, of the renowned shoe company, and the writer Arnost Lustig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pil\u00e1tov\u00e1 is successful as a writer of both literary books and children’s books. Her work has appeared in more than 10 languages. Her novels have been nominated more than once for the Magnesia Litera Award Prize and for the Josef \u0160kvoreck\u00fd Award . For her children’s books she received the Golden Ribbon Award , the SUK Children’s Book Award and the Be Proud Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u017dlut\u00e9 o\u010di vedou dom\u016f<\/strong><\/a> (Yellow Eyes Will Lead You Home)
Torst Publishers, Prague (2007)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

M\u00e1 nejmilej\u0161\u00ed kniha<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>(My Most Beloved Book)
Torst Publishers, Prague (2009)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tsunami Blues<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>(Tsunami Blues)
Torst Publishers, Prague (2014)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hrdina od Madridu<\/strong><\/a> (The Hero from Madrid)
Pikador Books, \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice (2016)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

S Ba\u0165ou v d\u017eungl<\/strong><\/a>i<\/strong> <\/em>(With Bata in the Jungle)
Torst Publishers, Prague (2017)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senzibil<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/a>(Diviner)
Torst Publishers, Prague (2020)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children’s Books<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe language of Mark\u00e9ta Pil\u00e1tov\u00e1 is enthralling by its homogeneous briefness and sharpness\u201d \u2014 Mlad\u00e1 fronta Dnes Mark\u00e9ta Pil\u00e1tov\u00e1 (1973) graduated in Romance Studies and History at the Faculty of Arts of Palack\u00fd University in Olomouc, where she was an assistant professor for six years. For two years she worked as a lecturer of Czech […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1161,"parent":1357,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-188","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions\/1616"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}