During her studies in ethnology at the Arts Faculty of Charles University from 1991–95 she stayed five times in the environment of the Evenki (Tunguz) nomadic reindeer herders in central Siberia, where she gathered myths, stories and songs about their life. In 1998 she went to Peru for two months, where she took an interest in the court case concerning the devastation of the desert patterns in Nazca. From 2000–01 she worked as an editor for Literární noviny. From 2000–02 there were two more four-month stays in the environment of the Evenki in the central region of the River Jenisej. From 2002–03 she worked as editor-in-chief of the children’s literary monthly Mateřídouška. In 2003 she visited the west coast of Costa Rica. In January 2004 she became editor-in-chief of the magazine Regenerace. She has published both in the specialist press (Acta etnographica, the review Lidé a města) and in other periodicals (Reflex, Respekt, Revue Labyrint, Literární noviny, Lidové noviny etc.) and participated in various programmes on Český rozhlas 3 – Vltava. She organized several exhibitions of photographs of Siberian nomads under the joint title Cesta medvěda, in Prague’s Divadlo Na Prádle within the framework of the Sibiriáda programme and as part of the Divočina project at the castle of Klenová u Klatov (both 2002), and together with paintings of woods by the artist Jan Novosad in the Communication Space in Školská Street in Prague (2004).
(The Literary Encyclopedia LES)
This author profile was last updated in 2010.
