In the heights of the White Carpathians, dotted sparsely across the hills, there are a number of crouched buildings. Everything is far away, which is why, so they say, certain women there have succeeded in preserving knowledge and intuition the rest of us have lost, which they have passed from generation to generation for centuries.

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Jakub Šofar (real name Vladimír Trojánek, *1958) was born in Nové Město na Moravě and has lived for a long time in Žďár nad Sázavou, travelling on occasion to Prague. He is a book and magazine editor and writer.

He is a non-combattant and a non-driver. After four semesters at the University of Economics in Prague (1977-1979) he graduated from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University (1979-1984). Afterwards he was a hotel receptionist and then a driver for Czechoslovak Buses. From 1985-1998 he worked for Horizont publishers and from 1999 in the editorial section of the public research institute. From 1993-2005 he was an editor for the fortnightly Tvar, and from 1999 editor of the online socio-cultural monthly Dobrá adresa, and from 2000 a contributor to the literary supplement Právo Salon. He has worked with New Books (until 2001), Czech Radio 3-Vltava (until 2005) and with the internet Portal of Czech Literature (until 2006). He has published under dozens of pseudonyms.

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